Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Late medical consequences of exposure to radioactive fallout

Rongelap and Utirik 35 years after “Bravo”

  • Published:
Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Data collected by the Brookhaven Medical Program on the late medical consequences of the exposure to radioactive fallout originated from the detonation of a thermonuclear device on Bikini atoll in Marshall Islands are discussed.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. E. P. CRONKITE, V. P. BOND, R. A. CONARD, N. R. SHULMAN, R. S. FARR, S. H. COHN, C. L. DUNHAM, L. E. BROWNING, J. Amer. Med. Assoc., 159 (1955) 430.

    Google Scholar 

  2. M. TSUZUKI, Munchener Med. Wochenschr., 31 (1955) 988.

    Google Scholar 

  3. R. A. CONARD, B. CANNON, C. E. HUGGINS, J. B. RICHARDS, A. LOWREY, J. Amer. Med. Assoc., 164 (1957) 1192.

    Google Scholar 

  4. R. A. CONARD, A. HICKING, J. Amer. Med.Assoc., 192 (1965) 457.

    Google Scholar 

  5. R. A. CONARD, J. E. RALL, W. W. SUTOW, New Engl. J. Med., 274 (1966) 1392.

    Google Scholar 

  6. R. A. CONARD, in Radiation-Associated Thyroid Carcinoma, Grune and Stratton, New York, 1977.

    Google Scholar 

  7. R. A. CONARD, in Radiation Carcinogenesis, Epidemiology and Biologic Significance, Raven Press Inc., New York, 1984.

    Google Scholar 

  8. W. H. ADAMS, P. M. HEOTIS, W. A. SCOTT, Medical Status of Marshallese Accidentally Exposed to 1954 BRAVO Fallout Radiation: January 1985 through December 1987, Brookhaven National Laboratory Report No. 52192, 1989.

  9. H. KATO, C. C. BROWN, D. G. HOWL, W. J. SCHULL, Radiat. Res., 91 (1982) 243.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  10. S. OKIJIMA, M. MINE, T. NAKAMURA, Radiat. Res., 103 (1985) 419.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  11. W. W. SUTOW, R. A. CONARD, K. M. GRIFFITH, Pediatrics, 36 (1965) 721.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  12. H. LISCO, R. A. CONARD, Science, 157 (1967) 445.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  13. J. V. NEEL, W. J. SCHULL, A. A. AWA, C. SATOH, M. OTAKE, H. KATO, Y. YOSHIMOTO, Implications of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Genetic Studies for the Estimation of the Human “Doubling Dose” of Radiation, Presented September 23, 1988. Toronto; in press.

  14. R. A. CONARD, Front. Radiation Ther. Onc., 6 (1971) 486.

    Google Scholar 

  15. R. A. CONARD, J. Amer. Med. Assoc., 232 (1975) 1356.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  16. R. A. CONARD et al., March 1957 Medical Survey of Rongelap and Utirik People Three Years after Exposure to Radioactive Fallout, Brookhaven National Laboratory Report No. 501 (T-119), 1958.

  17. W. H. ADAMS, W. R. KINDERMANN, K. W. WALLS, P. M. HEOTIS, Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 36 (1987) 315.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  18. W. H. ADAMS, H. A. FIELDS, J. R. ENGLE, S. C. HADLER, Radiat. Res., 108 (1986) 74.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  19. E. LESSARD, R. MILTENBERGER, R. CONARD, S. MUSOLINO, J. NAIDU, A. MOORTHY, C. SCHOPFER, Thyroid-Absorbed Dose for People at Rongelap, Utirik and Sifo on March 1, 1954, Brookhaven National Laboratory Report No. 51 882, 1985.

  20. J. ROBBINS, W. H. ADAMS, Elsevier Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 1990, in press.

  21. D. L. PRESTON, D. A. PIERCE, Radiat. Res., 114(1988) 437.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  22. P. R. LARSEN, R. A. CONARD, K. KNUDSEN, J. ROBBINS, J. WOLFF, J. E. RALL, J. T. NICOLOFF, B. M. DOBYNS, J. Amer. Med. Assoc., 247 (1982) 1571.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  23. W. H. ADAMS, J. A. HARPER, R. S. RITTMASTER, R. C. GRIMSON, J. Amer. Med. Assoc., 252 (1984) 664.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Medical Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Associated Universities, Inc, Upton, 11973, Long Island, New York, (USA)

    W. H. Adams

Authors
  1. W. H. Adams
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Adams, W.H. Late medical consequences of exposure to radioactive fallout. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, Articles 156, 269–290 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02038344

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02038344

Keywords

Search

Navigation