Re: AEA Nevada Test Site - Downwinders

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William Dixon                                email : 
dixon@chem.chemistry.uq.oz.au
Department of Chemistry               voice :   (+61) 07 3365 3882 University of
Queensland               fax   :   (+61) 07 3870 2495 QLD 4072
Australia

Wrote:


"I am researching material on  the doses received by downwinders of bomb 
tests in the 40s and 50s.  I can't find much here on the Nevada tests, and 
would very much appreciate references for the history and technical details 
of the tests ... "

     
I would like to remind all RADSAFERs of the
     


        COORDINATION AND INFORMATION CENTER


The mission of the Coordination and Information Center is to: 

    Collect and consolidate, for long term preservation, historical documents, 
records and data dealing ith offsite radioactive fallout from U.S. testing of 
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    Data and documentation on the detection and measurement of radioactive 
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The Nevada Operations Office of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) opened the 
Coordination and Information Center (CIC) July 17, 1981 to collect and make 
available all historical documents, records and data dealing with radioactive 
fallout from all U.S. testing of nuclear devices. The center is operated
by Reynolds Electrical & Engineering Co., Inc. for DOE. 

The center's public reading room contains published materials and printed 
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Chuck Watson
Director, National Radiobiology Archives
PNNL

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