Urinary excretion of radionuclides from Marshallese exposed to fallout from the 1954 Bravo nuclear test.

ABSTRACT: Soon after the Bravo nuclear test at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands on 1 March 1954, urine samples were collected for analysis of excreted radioactivity from native residents exposed to radioactive fallout on two atolls as well as from U.S. military personnel on a third atoll. The earliest acquired samples, obtained by the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL), were assayed for various radionuclides and provided the first known measurements of (131)I in urine following exposure to fallout from a nuclear test. Over the course of 1954, many additional samples were collected by the LASL, as well as by the Atomic Energy Commission New York Operations Office's Health and Safety Laboratory and the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory. Collectively, the groups sampled included Marshalles

SUBMITTER: Harris PS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4009706 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature