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[Ruth Weiner <rfweine@sandia.gov>]

Atmospheric testing in the U. S, stopped in 1962 or 1963.

Clearly only my own opinion.

Ruth Weiner
rfweine@sandia.gov

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Date:    9/6/98 9:01 AM


At 18:09 05.09.1998 -0500, you wrote: 
>
>Summary available at:
>
>http://www.nas.edu/morenews/
>Some Americans are at higher risk for developing thyroid cancer 
>after exposure to radioactive iodine from nuclear bomb tests in the 
>1950s and 1960s,
     
Can anybody tell, when the  a t m o s p h e r i c  bomb test series in 
Nevada were stopped? I cannot believe, that in the 60's any such tests were 
conducted in the US. The fate of the Marshall Islands is well known, but I 
do not believe that the inhabitants there are regarded as Americans. As 
well it should not be forgotten, that Europa and especially Scandinavia was 
heavily affected by the Sovjet tests. Could anybody provide figures or at 
least direct me to relevant literature on I-131? I have access to a lot of 
data in Austria, but they are usually in terms of "gross alpha", "gross 
beta" or "gross alpha+beta", which are of no use of course to estimate the 
I-131 concentrations.
     
Franz
     
     
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