Exposure of the American people to Iodine-131 from Nevada nuclear-bomb tests
Subtitle: review of the National Cancer Institute report and public health implications
By: Committee on Thyroid Screening Related to I-131 Exposure, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine, and Committee on Exposure of the American People to I-131 from the Nevada Atomic Bomb Tests, Board on Radiation Effects Research, Commission on Life Scienes, National Research Council.
Contributors: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Thyroid Screening Related to I-131 Exposure.; National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Exposure of the American People to I-131 from the Nevada Atomic Bomb Tests.
Publisher: National Academy Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Ionizing radiation -- Dosage; Nevada Test Site (Nev.); Iodine -- Isotopes -- Toxicology -- United States; Nuclear weapons testing victims -- Health risk assessment -- United States; Thyroid gland -- Cancer -- United States -- Epidemiology; Radiation carcinogenesis -- United States; Radiation Dosage; Iodine Radioisotopes -- adverse effects; Radioactive Fallout -- United States -- adverse effects; Public Health -- United States
Genres: United States; United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Support for this project was provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Contract Number NO1-OD-4-2139, TO35)"--T.p. verso.