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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Health risk assessment
ISBN : PSU:000013393915
Author : IPPNW International Commission to Investigate the Health and Environmental Effects of Nuclear Weapons Production
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015025282917
Author : Gordon M. Dunning,U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Nuclear weapons
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038376419
This pamphlet is concerned principally with the health aspects of nuclear weapons testing in the atmosphere. Nothing new is contained herein and much has been omitted for brevity. The pamphlet does attempt to bring together the highlights of a large body of information and thus in some small way may assist in further enlightenment of a complex subject.
Author : U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Nuclear weapons
ISBN : UOM:39015003812982
Author : International Council for Science
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015042570484
Nuclear Test Explosions Environmental and Human Impacts Edited by Sir Frederick Warner University of Essex, UK and Rene J.C. University of Liege, Belgium Nuclear Test Explosions summarises the findings of the international project SCOPE-RADTEST (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment - RADiation from nuclear TEST explosions), on the environmental and human impacts of nuclear tests. The location and dates of 730 explosions and the 2419 tests performed between 1945 and 1998 are given followed by discussion of their effects. The nuclear test sites include: Nevada, Semipalatinsk, Novaya Zemlya, South Pacific, Australia and Lob Nor. The fallout from 541 atmospheric tests and effects on human health and environment are assessed and the development of nuclear weapons is described. The contents of the book have been assembled by a team of experts and should greatly assist in the discussion of weapons limitation.
Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Radiation Effects Research,Committee to Assess the Scientific Information for the Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309096102
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.
Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Committee on the Effects of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator and Other Weapons
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309096737
Underground facilities are used extensively by many nations to conceal and protect strategic military functions and weapons' stockpiles. Because of their depth and hardened status, however, many of these strategic hard and deeply buried targets could only be put at risk by conventional or nuclear earth penetrating weapons (EPW). Recently, an engineering feasibility study, the robust nuclear earth penetrator program, was started by DOE and DOD to determine if a more effective EPW could be designed using major components of existing nuclear weapons. This activity has created some controversy about, among other things, the level of collateral damage that would ensue if such a weapon were used. To help clarify this issue, the Congress, in P.L. 107-314, directed the Secretary of Defense to request from the NRC a study of the anticipated health and environmental effects of nuclear earth-penetrators and other weapons and the effect of both conventional and nuclear weapons against the storage of biological and chemical weapons. This report provides the results of those analyses. Based on detailed numerical calculations, the report presents a series of findings comparing the effectiveness and expected collateral damage of nuclear EPW and surface nuclear weapons under a variety of conditions.
Author : Charles S. Shapiro,Valerie I. Kiselev,Eugene V. Zaitsev
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 364263723X
This volume focuses on the human exposures and medical effects studies in the SemipaiatinskJ Altai region of Siberia that were a consequence of the radioactive fallout from nuclear test explosions that took place at the Semipalatinsk Test Site of the former Soviet Union. It contains a detailed account of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) devoted to the subject, and a selection of the papers presented. The title of the ARW was "Long-term Consequences of Nuclear Tests for the Environment and Population Health (SemipaiatinskJAltai Case Studies)". The estimated exposures to large numbers of people in the Altai lie in an important dose rate and dose domain. Hence the research reported herein provides new and unique information on the effects of radiation on humans. Also emphasized at the ARW were studies involving fallout from the Pacific Island tests of the U. S. A . . There have been over 2300 nuclear weapon test explosions to date. More than 500 took place in the atmosphere and outer space; the remainder were underground. The atmospheric tests comprise the largest source of anthropogenic radioactivity released into the earth's atmosphere to date. The vast majority, in number and yield, were carried out by the former Soviet Union (FSU) and the United States. Each superpower maintained two primary test sites, one continental primarily for small yield tests, and the other more remote for larger yield tests. For the U. S. A.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCR:31210024829804
Author : U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Nevada Operations Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Nuclear weapons
ISBN : UOM:39015095213768
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556031208424
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556031326002
Author : Nic Maclellan
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781760461386
Grappling with the Bomb is a history of Britain’s 1950s program to test the hydrogen bomb, code name Operation Grapple. In 1957–58, nine atmospheric nuclear tests were held at Malden Island and Christmas Island—today, part of the Pacific nation of Kiribati. Nearly 14,000 troops travelled to the central Pacific for the UK nuclear testing program—many are still living with the health and environmental consequences. Based on archival research and interviews with nuclear survivors, Grappling with the Bomb presents i-Kiribati woman Sui Kiritome, British pacifist Harold Steele, businessman James Burns, Fijian sailor Paul Ah Poy, English volunteers Mary and Billie Burgess and many other witnesses to Britain’s nuclear folly.
Author : U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Nuclear weapons
ISBN : UCBK:C006193146
Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Earth Sciences and Resources,Committee on Earth Resources,Committee on Uranium Mining in Virginia
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309220873
Uranium mining in the Commonwealth of Virginia has been prohibited since 1982 by a state moratorium, although approval for restricted uranium exploration in the state was granted in 2007. Uranium Mining in Virginia examines the scientific, technical, environmental, human health and safety, and regulatory aspects of uranium mining, milling, and processing as they relate to the Commonwealth of Virginia for the purpose of assisting the Commonwealth to determine whether uranium mining, milling, and processing can be undertaken in a manner that safeguards the environment, natural and historic resources, agricultural lands, and the health and well-being of its citizens. According to this report, if Virginia lifts its moratorium, there are "steep hurdles to be surmounted" before mining and processing could take place within a regulatory setting that appropriately protects workers, the public, and the environment, especially given that the state has no experience regulating mining and processing of the radioactive element. The authoring committee was not asked to recommend whether uranium mining should be permitted, or to consider the potential benefits to the state were uranium mining to be pursued. It also was not asked to compare the relative risks of uranium mining to the mining of other fuels such as coal. This book will be of interest to decision makers at the state and local level, the energy industry, and concerned citizens.
