Re: Institute of Medicine/National Research Council review of

[Mike McKinnon <mmckinno.ndep-lv@ndep.carson-city.nv.us>]

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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

 
Franz Schoenhofer
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