Fallout, Radiation Standards, and Countermeasures: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Research, Development, and Radiation of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Congress of the United States, Eighty-eighth Congress, First Session, Part 2 |
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Page 591 - Therefore, pending more precise information, we recommend that the population permissible dose for man-made radiation be based on the average natural background level. Although it is not our responsibility to determine the exact level, we believe that the population permissible somatic dose from man-made radiations, ex-cluding medical and dental sources, should not be larger than that due to natural background radiation, without a careful examination of the reasons for, and the expected benefits...
Page 1187 - The incumbent of this position will be in charge of the office of the Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York, and will perform the duties heretofore performed by the Coroners of the various Boroughs.
Page 638 - ... locations. Any accumulation of these materials can be detected with great sensitivity so that ample warning of potential hazard could be given long before any actual danger occurred from test detonations. The amounts of radiostrontium and radioiodine which have fallen outside the areas near the test sites as a result of all atomic tests up to now are insignificant compared to concentrations that would be considered hazardous to health.
Page 1187 - Current research findings on radioactive fallout, address to AAAS, Washington, DC (1956). 6. This article is Lamont Geological Observatory contribution No. 231. This research was supported by the Division of Biology and Medicine of the US Atomic Energy Commission.
Page 588 - In the absence of such information, the committee believes that it is prudent to be conservative and choose a premise which, if in error, would be likely to overestimate the effect of low doses rather than underestimate it. The committee decided to adopt as an assumption that a proportional relationship between dose and effect exists, as briefly outlined above. This signifies that no threshold exists, and, by inference from some of the theoretical concepts, we will assume further that the radiation...
Page 1096 - Manual of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Injuries and Causes of Death. Sixth Revision of the International Lists of Diseases and Causes of Death," Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Supplement, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 1948.
Page 888 - The aim of the society, as announced in its constitution is: "to foster throughout the world a tradition of personal moral responsibility for the consequences for humanity of professional activity, with emphasis on constructive alternatives to militarism...
Page 501 - Even then, the number of children and grandchildren with cancer in their bones, with leukemia in their blood, or with poison in their lungs might seem statistically small to some, in comparison with natural health hazards. But this is not a natural health hazard, and it is not a statistical issue. The loss of even one human life or the malformation of even one baby — who may be born long after we are gone — should be of concern to us all. Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics...
Page 780 - Some effects of ionizing radiation on human beings. A report on the Marshallese and Americans Accidentally Exposed to Radiation from Fallout and a Discussion of Radiation Injury in the Human Being, USAEC Unclassified Report TID-5358, 1956.
Page 587 - Upon review of the Ad Hoc Committee's report, it was noted that while the report suggests a basis for expressing the maximum permissible somatic dose for the population, it does not contain specific recommendations immediately applicable as maximum permissible doses. It also appears likely that the maximum permissible doses that might be derived from the Ad Hoc Committee's report would not be widely different from the current recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological Protection...