Author: United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Ships
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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United States Naval Radiological Laboratory
Author: United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Ships
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Assessment of the Scientific Information for the Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309096103
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) was set up by Congress in 1990 to compensate people who have been diagnosed with specified cancers and chronic diseases that could have resulted from exposure to nuclear-weapons tests at various U.S. test sites. Eligible claimants include civilian onsite participants, downwinders who lived in areas currently designated by RECA, and uranium workers and ore transporters who meet specified residence or exposure criteria. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), which oversees the screening, education, and referral services program for RECA populations, asked the National Academies to review its program and assess whether new scientific information could be used to improve its program and determine if additional populations or geographic areas should be covered under RECA. The report recommends Congress should establish a new science-based process using a method called "probability of causation/assigned share" (PC/AS) to determine eligibility for compensation. Because fallout may have been higher for people outside RECA-designated areas, the new PC/AS process should apply to all residents of the continental US, Alaska, Hawaii, and overseas US territories who have been diagnosed with specific RECA-compensable diseases and who may have been exposed, even in utero, to radiation from U.S. nuclear-weapons testing fallout. However, because the risks of radiation-induced disease are generally low at the exposure levels of concern in RECA populations, in most cases it is unlikely that exposure to radioactive fallout was a substantial contributing cause of cancer.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309096103
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) was set up by Congress in 1990 to compensate people who have been diagnosed with specified cancers and chronic diseases that could have resulted from exposure to nuclear-weapons tests at various U.S. test sites. Eligible claimants include civilian onsite participants, downwinders who lived in areas currently designated by RECA, and uranium workers and ore transporters who meet specified residence or exposure criteria. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), which oversees the screening, education, and referral services program for RECA populations, asked the National Academies to review its program and assess whether new scientific information could be used to improve its program and determine if additional populations or geographic areas should be covered under RECA. The report recommends Congress should establish a new science-based process using a method called "probability of causation/assigned share" (PC/AS) to determine eligibility for compensation. Because fallout may have been higher for people outside RECA-designated areas, the new PC/AS process should apply to all residents of the continental US, Alaska, Hawaii, and overseas US territories who have been diagnosed with specific RECA-compensable diseases and who may have been exposed, even in utero, to radiation from U.S. nuclear-weapons testing fallout. However, because the risks of radiation-induced disease are generally low at the exposure levels of concern in RECA populations, in most cases it is unlikely that exposure to radioactive fallout was a substantial contributing cause of cancer.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2392
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2392
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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2002
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2002
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Review of Federal Studies on Health Effects of Low-level Radiation Exposure and Implementation of Public Law 97-72
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
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Category : Low. level radiation
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Category : Low. level radiation
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps Bulletin
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Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Structure Shielding Against Fallout Radiation from Nuclear Weapons
Author: Lewis Van Clief Spencer
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Category : Fallout shelters
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Category : Fallout shelters
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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NBS Monograph
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Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Radiation Standards, Including Fallout: Appendix [written statements
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
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Category : Radiation
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Reviews and updates information on radiation standards including fallout, genetic consequences of radiation exposure, and role and function of Federal Radiation Council and private organizations in administering radiation standards. Includes, "Monitoring-Surveillance Activities in U.S.," by James G. Terrill, Jr., Dep Chief, Div of Radiological Health, HEW, June 5, 1962 (p. 179-237).
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Category : Radiation
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Reviews and updates information on radiation standards including fallout, genetic consequences of radiation exposure, and role and function of Federal Radiation Council and private organizations in administering radiation standards. Includes, "Monitoring-Surveillance Activities in U.S.," by James G. Terrill, Jr., Dep Chief, Div of Radiological Health, HEW, June 5, 1962 (p. 179-237).
Radioactive Fallout from Nuclear Weapons Tests
Author: Alfred W. Klement
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Category : Radioactive fallout
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Radioactive fallout
Languages : en
Pages : 974
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