Radiological Assessments for the Resettlement of Rongelap in the Republic of the Marshall Islands PDF
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Radiological Assessments for Resettlement title: of Rongelap in the Republic of the Marshall Islands author: publisher: National Academies Press isbn10 | asin: 0309050499 print isbn13: 9780309050494 ebook isbn13: 9780585142555 language: English Radioactive pollution--Marshall Islands-- Rongelap Atoll, Radioactive fallout-- subject Toxicology--Marshall Islands--Rongelap Atoll. publication date: 1994 lcc: RA1231.R2N353 1994eb ddc: 363.17/99/099683 Radioactive pollution--Marshall Islands-- subject: Rongelap Atoll, Radioactive fallout-- Toxicology--Marshall Islands--Rongelap Atoll. Page i Radiological Assessments for Resettlement of Rongelap in the Republic of the Marshall Islands Committee on Radiological Safety in the Marshall Islands Board on Radiation Effects Research Commission on Life Sciences National Research Council Natioanl Academy Press Washington, D.C. 1994 Page ii National Academy Press 2101 Constitution Avenue, N. W., Washington, D.C. 20418 The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their special competencies and with regard for appropriate balance. This report has been reviewed by a group other than the authors according to procedures approved by a Report Review Committee consisting of the members of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. This project was prepared under Grant No. DE-FG05-92EH89138 between the National Academy of Sciences and the Department of Energy. Cover: Ocean beach on Rongelap Island; photo by Evan Douple. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 94-65989 International Standard Book Number 0-309-05049-9 B-328 Additional copies of this report are available from: National Academy Press 2101 Constitution Ave., NW Box 285 Washington, DC 20055 800-624-6242 202-334-3313 (in the Washington Metropolitan Area) Copyright 1994 by the National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America Page iii Committee on Radiological Safety in the Marshall Islands JAMES V. NEEL (Chairman), Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor STUART C. FINCH (Vice Chairman), Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Camden, New Jersey BRUCE B. BOECKER, Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico LAURENCE M. CARUCCI, Department of Sociology, Montana State University, Bozeman JESSE M. CLEVELAND, U. S. Geological Survey (ret.), Boulder, Colorado PHILIP M. DIXON, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Aiken, South Carolina JANET L. GREGER, University of Wisconsin, Madison WAYNE C. HANSON, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (ret.), Bellingham, Washington NEAL S. NELSON, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C. RICHARD V. OSBORNE, Chalk River Laboratories, Canada CHARLES E. ROESSLER, University of Florida, Gainesville JOSEPH C. SCHOOLAR, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas National Research Council Staff D. DENNIS MAHLUM, Study Director until February 28, 1993 LARRY H. TOBUREN, Study Director as of February 1, 1993 JOHN D. ZIMBRICK, Director as of July 5, 1993 DORIS E. TAYLOR, Administrative Assistant NORMAN GROSSBLATT, Editor SPONSOR'S PROJECT OFFICER R. Thomas Bell, Department of Energy Page iv Board on Radiation Effects Reasearch WARREN K. SINCLAIR (Chairman), National Council on Radiation Protection & Measurements (ret.), Bethesda, Maryland DOUGLAS GRAHN, Argonne National Laboratory (ret.), Madison, Indiana ERIC J. HALL, Columbia University, New York, New York MAUREEN M. HENDERSON, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and University of Washington, Seattle LEONARD S. LERMAN, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge JOHN B. LITTLE, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts JONATHAN M. SAMET, New Mexico Tumor Registry, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque THOMAS S. TENFORDE, Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories, Richland, Washington ARTHUR C. UPTON, New York University Medical Center (ret.), New York, New York (until June 30, 1993) H. RODNEY WITHERS, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California (effective July 1, 1993) National Research Council Staff JOHN D. ZIMBRICK, Director as of July 5, 1993 CHARLES W. EDINGTON, Director until May 17, 1993 EVAN B. DOUPLE, Senior Program Officer D. DENNIS MAHLUM, Senior Program Officer until February 28, 1993 LARRY H. TOBUREN, Senior Program Officer CATHERINE S. BERKLEY, Administrative Associate MAURITA DOW-MASSEY, Project Assistant DORIS E. TAYLOR, Administrative Assistant Page v Commission on Life Sciences THOMAS D. POLLARD (Chairman), Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, Maryland BRUCE N. AMES, University of California, Berkeley JOHN C. BAILAR, III, McGill University, Montreal, Canada J. MICHAEL BISHOP, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco JOHN E. BURRIS, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts MICHAEL T. CLEGG, University of California, Riverside GLENN A. CROSBY, Washington State University, Pullman LEROY E. HOOD, University of Washington, Seattle MARIAN E. KOSHLAND, University of California, Berkeley RICHARD E. LENSKI, Michigan State University, East Lansing EMIL A. PFITZER, Hoffmann La Roche, Inc., Nutley, New Jersey MALCOLM C. PIKE, USC School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California HENRY C. PITOT, III, University of Wisconsin, Madison PAUL G. RISSER, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio JONATHAN M. SAMET, New Mexico Tumor Registry, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque HAROLD M. SCHMECK, JR., Armonk, New York CARLA J. SHATZ, University of California, Berkeley
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