Exposure of the American People to Iodine-131 from Nevada Nuclear-Bomb Tests: Review of the National Cancer Institute Report and Public Health Implica

by Institute of Medicine, National Research Council, Commission on Life Sciences, et al.

In 1997, after more than a decade of research, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) released a report which provided their assessment of radiation exposures that Americans may have received from radioactive iodine released from the atomic bomb tests conducted in Nevada during the 1950s and early 1960s. This book provides an evaluation of the soundness of the methodology used by the NCI study to estimate:

Past radiation doses. Possible health...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030906175X
• ISBN13: 9780309061759
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"