Health Effects of Underground Nuclear Tests: Oversight Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session ... Hearing Held in Salt Lake City, UT, September 25, 1987 |
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Page 135 - Off-site environmental monitoring report for the Nevada Test Site and other test areas used for underground nuclear detonations, January...
Page 2 - Threshold Test Ban Treaty of 1974 and Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty of 1976, and proceed to negotiating further intermediate limitations on nuclear testing leading to the ultimate objective of the complete cessation of nuclear testing as part of an effective disarmament process.
Page 170 - Department of Pharmacology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah...
Page 89 - ... spent fuel and high-level radioactive waste in a manner that protects the health and safety of the public and maintains the quality of the environment.
Page 13 - I will be happy to address any questions you or the Committee may have.
Page 49 - Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I really do not have any questions. I appreciate your comments.
Page 135 - Environmental monitoring report for the Nevada Test Site and other test areas used for underground nuclear detonations. January through December 1973.
Page 135 - Off-site surveillance activities of the National Environmental Research Center from July through December 1970.
Page 6 - ... operations are safe, economical, and efficient. As transporters of much of the Nation's energy products, we are seeking modest increases in our productivity — increases which can and will stretch the transportation dollar that we all pay and save vital fuel resources on which we are all so dependent. Thank you again, Mr. Chairman, for the opportunity to be with you here today. Senator BENTSEN. Thank you very much. I think maybe you gave me an answer to a question I was trying to get much earlier...
Page 154 - ... 4). There were more cancers of the gastrointestinal tract than expected. There was an excess of melanoma ( 1 2/4.5) , bone cancer ( 8/0.7) and brain tumors ( 9/3.9). A subgroup with history of acute fallout effects had a higher cancer incidence. That these cases can be associated with...