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Health Risks of Ionizing Radiation: - Clark University

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252 Index<br />

27<br />

and radiation workers, 194<br />

and Semipalatinsk test site, 60<br />

and Techa River residents, 168<br />

and UKNRBP workers, 84<br />

and X-rays, 23<br />

South Pacific testing, 63, 69<br />

Soviet Union<br />

Mayak Production Association, 97-102<br />

Spain, 152<br />

Springfields facility, 83<br />

Stillbirths, 121, 122-23<br />

around Sellafield, 149<br />

and preconception irradiation, 128-29<br />

studies <strong>of</strong> incidence near nuclear facilities,<br />

166<br />

Stomach cancer, 26<br />

and Nevada Test Site, 61<br />

and Portsmouth Uranium Enrichment Plant,<br />

80<br />

and Semipalatinsk Test Site, 60<br />

Strontium-90, 61<br />

Supralinear model, 11, 45-46, 48, 75<br />

Sweden, 107, 152<br />

T-cells, 50, 133<br />

Techa River, 97, 153, 168, 194. See also<br />

Mayak workers<br />

Testicular cancer, 28, 84<br />

Therapeutic exposures, 28-29<br />

Thorotrast, 24, 176<br />

Three Mile Island, 130-31<br />

and childhood cancer, 14<br />

health effects on communities around, 145<br />

studies <strong>of</strong> health effects, 138<br />

Threshold dose, 167, 173-74<br />

Thyroid cancer, 22, 26<br />

and atomic bomb survivors, 49<br />

and Chernobyl, 131, 132, 133-35, 141-42<br />

in children, 24, 26, 27, 133-35, 185<br />

and external radiation, 182-83<br />

and Hanford, 146, 147<br />

and Hodgkin’s disease, 182<br />

and internal radiation, 183<br />

and Iodine-131, 23-24<br />

and medical exposure, 19, 32, 169<br />

and Nevada Test Site, 61, 62<br />

and radiotherapy, 27, 28<br />

risk estimates for various exposures, 186<br />

in Scandinavia, 63<br />

and Semipalatinsk Test Site, 60<br />

and South Pacific testing, 63<br />

in UKNRBP workers, 84<br />

and X-rays, 26<br />

Thyroid disease, 181-86<br />

around Hanford, 146<br />

and atomic bomb survivors, 50, 51<br />

and Nevada Test Site, 61-63<br />

and nuclear weapons testing, 58<br />

and radiation, 184-85<br />

and South Pacific testing, 63<br />

Thyroiditis, 51, 184<br />

Thyrotoxicosis, 147, 184<br />

Time since exposure, 52<br />

and Oak Ridge, 76<br />

and uranium mining, 108<br />

Tinea capitis, 25, 27, 169<br />

Tobacco, 13, 28<br />

Translocations, 60<br />

Tritium, 80, 83, 84<br />

Tuberculosis, 25<br />

Tumors, solid, 181<br />

and atomic bomb survivors, 44, 48-49<br />

and mine workers, 106<br />

Ulcers, 26<br />

United Kingdom<br />

and childhood leukemia, 148<br />

and diagnostic X-rays, 23<br />

nuclear weapons facilities, 82-84<br />

pooled data for radiation workers, 83<br />

United Nations Scientific Committee on<br />

the Effects <strong>of</strong> Atomic <strong>Radiation</strong>. See<br />

UNSCEAR<br />

United States<br />

nuclear weapons facilities, 73-82<br />

pooled data for radiation workers, 85-86<br />

studies <strong>of</strong> uranium miners, 104-7<br />

UNSCEAR, 3<br />

and Mayak workers, 97<br />

worker exposure limits, 70<br />

Uranium, 81, 82, 84, 85, 87. See also Miners<br />

and chromosome aberrations, 148<br />

miners, 103-12<br />

at Oak Ridge, 75, 76<br />

Uterine bleeding, 26<br />

Uterine cancer, 84, 86<br />

Uterine myoma, 50

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