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Health Risks of Ionizing Radiation: - Clark University

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246 Index<br />

and Oak Ridge workers, 76<br />

and thyroid cancer, 182<br />

Dosimetry, 44-45, 72<br />

Doubling dose, 75<br />

Dounreay, 149-50, 150, 151<br />

Downwinders<br />

Chernobyl, 136, 168<br />

and childhood leukemia, 179<br />

and childhood thyroid cancer, 141-42<br />

and leukemia, 178, 180<br />

Nevada Test Site, 60-63, 180<br />

Semipalatinsk Test Site, 59-60<br />

DS86 dosimetry system, 44-45<br />

Ecologic studies, 8, 146, 147<br />

Emergency workers. See Cleanup workers<br />

Endocrine system<br />

and Chernobyl, 133<br />

and childhood cancer, 26<br />

metabolic disease, 185<br />

Energy Research and Development<br />

Administration (ERDA), 3<br />

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 3<br />

Epidemiological studies, 7-9<br />

communities near nuclear facilities, 146<br />

flight personnel, 108<br />

<strong>of</strong> uranium miners, 107<br />

Eskimos, 64<br />

Esophageal cancer, 25<br />

and Los Alamos National Laboratory, 80<br />

and pooled U.S. data, 85<br />

and Semipalatinsk Test Site, 60<br />

European Committee on <strong>Radiation</strong> Risk<br />

(ECRR), 3<br />

Excretory system, 49<br />

External exposure, 14, 118<br />

and benign disease studies, 36-38<br />

and Chernobyl, 132<br />

and Mayak workers, 99, 194<br />

and nuclear workers, 177<br />

and relationship to cancer, 84<br />

and Rocketdyne workers, 77-78<br />

and Sellafield workers’ children, 120<br />

and stillbirths, 121<br />

and thyroid diseases, 182-83<br />

F1 generation, 51<br />

Fallout, 2, 5, 58, 61, 62, 64, 132, 178, 183<br />

studies, 66-68, 69<br />

Fathers<br />

and childhood cancer, 117, 121-22, 148<br />

Feed Material Production Center (Fernald<br />

site), 82<br />

Fernald site, 82, 88, 89<br />

Flight personnel<br />

and leukemia, 178<br />

and radiation exposure, 113-16<br />

studies <strong>of</strong> cancer in, 116<br />

Fluoroscopy, 25, 33-35<br />

Fluorspar, 107<br />

Follicular tumors, 181<br />

Fractionated exposure, 25<br />

France, 107<br />

Gallbladder cancer, 24<br />

Gamma radiation, 5, 6, 14, 19, 80<br />

and atomic bomb survivors, 45<br />

and flight personnel, 113<br />

and Mayak workers, 97, 98, 99<br />

and thyroid disease, 185<br />

Gardner hypothesis, 117-19<br />

Gender. See also Men; Women<br />

and atomic bomb survivors, 48, 52<br />

and cancer among flight personnel, 114<br />

and childhood cancer, 117<br />

and diagnostic exposures, 21<br />

and Mayak workers, 97<br />

and Oak Ridge workers, 75<br />

and radiation-related cancer risks, 89<br />

and Savannah River Site workers, 79<br />

Genetic damage, 128-29<br />

and atomic bomb survivors, 121<br />

and Chernobyl, 133, 136<br />

and Sellafield, 82-83<br />

Genital organs, 28<br />

Genomic instability, 173<br />

Germ cells, 133, 136, 137, 193<br />

Germany, 107<br />

Germline mutations, 60<br />

Goiter, 184<br />

Grave’s disease, 181<br />

Hanford, 73-75<br />

and childhood cancer, 155<br />

health effects on communities around, 146-<br />

47<br />

and multiple myeloma, 86, 88<br />

and neural tube defects, 121

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