Health Risks of Ionizing Radiation: - Clark University
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