"ESTIMATED EXPOSURES AND THYROID DOSES RECEIVED BY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FROM IODINE-131 IN FALLOUT FOLLOWING THE NEVADA ATMOSPHERIC NUCLEAR BOMB TESTS" Statement of
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Good morning Senator Specter, Senator Harkin, and Members of the Subcommittee. I am Richard Klausner, Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and today I am presenting to you, for the first time, the completed NCI report estimating thyroid doses of Iodine-131 (I-131) received by Americans as a result of atmospheric nuclear bomb tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site. This study was conducted in response to legislation enacted by the 97 Congress of the United States.
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