The Five Series Study

The Five Series Study
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2000-03-02
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0309172594

More than 200,000 U.S. military personnel participated in atmospheric nuclear weapons tests between 1945 and the 1963 Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Questions persist, such as whether that test participation is associated with the timing and causes of death among those individuals. This is the report of a mortality study of the approximately 70,000 soldiers, sailors, and airmen who participated in at least one of five selected U.S. nuclear weapons test series1 in the 1950s and nearly 65,000 comparable nonparticipants, the referents. The investigation described in this report, based on more than 5 million person-years of mortality follow-up, represents one of the largest cohort studies of military veterans ever conducted.

The Five Series Study

The Five Series Study
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2000-04-02
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0309067812

More than 200,000 U.S. military personnel participated in atmospheric nuclear weapons tests between 1945 and the 1963 Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Questions persist, such as whether that test participation is associated with the timing and causes of death among those individuals. This is the report of a mortality study of the approximately 70,000 soldiers, sailors, and airmen who participated in at least one of five selected U.S. nuclear weapons test series1 in the 1950s and nearly 65,000 comparable nonparticipants, the referents. The investigation described in this report, based on more than 5 million person-years of mortality follow-up, represents one of the largest cohort studies of military veterans ever conducted.

The Million Person Study of Low-Dose Radiation Health Effects

The Million Person Study of Low-Dose Radiation Health Effects
Author: John D. Boice Jr
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2024-11-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1040259588

This book presents original research findings of The Million Person Study of Low-Dose Radiation Health Effects (MPS), the largest and most comprehensive epidemiologic study of its kind to investigate the health effects of low-level chronic radiation exposure on American workers and veterans throughout the 20th century. Since the early 1900s, epidemiologists have studied the consequences of radiation exposures, yet the health effects of low levels received gradually over time remain unresolved. This uncertainty comes at a time when the public and workers are experiencing ever-increasing levels of radiation exposure from advances in medical radiation imaging techniques (e.g., CT scans), frequent flying at high altitudes, and environmental and occupational exposures. The MPS is providing answers by studying 30 radiation-exposed U.S. populations, including workers at nuclear power plants, radiologists, workers at former Manhattan Project sites, nuclear submariners, nuclear weapons test participants (atomic veterans), industrial radiographers, and radium dial painters. Ongoing for more than 20 years and coordinated by the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the MPS is a national effort supported by the Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Navy, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Environmental Protection Agency. Unparalleled in scope and quality, the MPS provides an understanding of low-dose health effects that is desperately needed for decision-makers and the radiation protection community as society continues to increase the uses of radiation technologies. Individual chapters were originally published in the International Journal of Radiation Biology.

For the Record

For the Record
Author: F. Gladeck
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1996
Genre: Ionizing radiation
ISBN:

Taming the Rays

Taming the Rays
Author: Geoff Meggitt
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2008
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1409246671

A history of ionising radiation, our understanding of it and of the harm it can cause. How the ways we have measured it and managed it have changed during the twentieth century.

Research Bulletin

Research Bulletin
Author: Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station
Publisher:
Total Pages: 438
Release: 1918
Genre: Agricultural chemistry
ISBN: