Health Risks of Ionizing Radiation: - Clark University
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