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Fallout From Nuclear Tests and Cancer Risks (reprint from American Scientist, 2006) (PDF)

Estimated Exposures and Thyroid Doses Received by the American People from Iodine-131 in Fallout Following Nevada Atmospheric Nuclear Bomb Tests (A report from the National Cancer Institute) [http://www.cancer.gov/i131/fallout/contents.html]

• Acknowledgments
• Executive Summary
• Technical Summary
  • Chapter 1 Introduction (257k)
  • Chapter 2 History of the Nevada Test Site and Nuclear Testing Background (561k)
  • Chapter 3 Deposition Of Iodine-131 on the Ground (2,900k)
  • Chapter 4 Transfer of Iodine-131 from Deposition in the Ground to Fresh Cows' Milk (1,600k)
  • Chapter 5 Cows' Milk Production, Utilization, Distribution and Consumption (624k)
  • Chapter 6 Methods and Input Data For Calculating Thyroid Doses to People Resulting From the Ingestion of Cows' Milk (699k)
  • Chapter 7 Methods and Data For Calculating Doses to People Resulting From Exposure Routes to Man Other Than the Ingestion of Fresh Cows' Milk (287k)
  • Chapter 8 Estimated Thyroid Doses Resulting from Atmospheric Bomb Tests Conducted at the Nevada Test Site (Part 1: 3,800k/ Part 2: 4,200k)
  • Chapter 9 Estimation of Doses to Specified Individuals (174k)
  • Chapter 10 Model Validation and Uncertainty Analysis (116k)
• Glossary (178k)

Doses by series, test, and county

• By state and county
• Dose/risk calculator

October 1997 Congressional Testimony - Statement of Richard D. Klausner, M.D., Director, National Cancer Institute before Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health, and Human Services, Education and Related Activities.

December 1997 - Methodology for the Calculation of the Estimated Lifetime Risk of Radiation-Related Thyroid Cancer in the United States from Nevada Test Site Fallout

1999 IOM Report - Exposure of the American People to Iodine-131 from Nevada Nuclear-Bomb Tests