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Paula S Rose - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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comment on Radioactive Fallout in the united states due to the fukushima nuclear plant accident by p thakur s ballard and r nelson j environ monit 2012 14 1317 1324
Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 2014Co-Authors: Paula S RoseAbstract:The May 2012 paper “Radioactive Fallout in the United States due to the Fukushima nuclear plant accident” (P. Thakur, S. Ballard and R. Nelson, J. Environ. Monit., 2012, 14, 1317–1324), does not address medical patient excreta as a source of 131I (t1/2 = 8.04 d) to the environment. While 131I is generated during fission reactions and may be released to the environment from nuclear power plants, nuclear weapons tests, nuclear fuel reprocessing and weapons production facilities, it is also produced for medical use. Iodine-131 administered to patients, excreted and discharged to sewer systems is readily measureable in sewage and the environment; the patient-to-sewage pathway is the only source of 131I in many locations.
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Comment on “Radioactive Fallout in the United States due to the Fukushima nuclear plant accident” by P. Thakur, S. Ballard and R. Nelson, J. Environ. Monit., 2012, 14, 1317–1324
Environmental science. Processes & impacts, 2014Co-Authors: Paula S RoseAbstract:The May 2012 paper “Radioactive Fallout in the United States due to the Fukushima nuclear plant accident” (P. Thakur, S. Ballard and R. Nelson, J. Environ. Monit., 2012, 14, 1317–1324), does not address medical patient excreta as a source of 131I (t1/2 = 8.04 d) to the environment. While 131I is generated during fission reactions and may be released to the environment from nuclear power plants, nuclear weapons tests, nuclear fuel reprocessing and weapons production facilities, it is also produced for medical use. Iodine-131 administered to patients, excreted and discharged to sewer systems is readily measureable in sewage and the environment; the patient-to-sewage pathway is the only source of 131I in many locations.
Keith Andrew Meyers - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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In the Shadow of the Mushroom Cloud: Nuclear Testing, Radioactive Fallout, and Damage to U.S. Agriculture, 1945 to 1970
The Journal of Economic History, 2019Co-Authors: Keith Andrew MeyersAbstract:In the 1950s the United States conducted scores of atmospheric nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site. This article studies the effects of Radioactive Fallout from nuclear tests on agriculture in regions hundreds of miles from the NTS. While research has shown that this Radioactive material posed a health risk near the NTS, little is known about the direct economic effects nuclear testing may have had. I find that Fallout from nuclear tests adversely affected U.S. agricultural production, and this result suggests that nuclear testing had a much broader economic and environmental impact than previously thought.
Tone D S Bergan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Radioactive Fallout in norway from atmospheric nuclear weapons tests
Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 2002Co-Authors: Tone D S BerganAbstract:Abstract Historical data on radioactivity in air and precipitation samples have been collected and analysed from study sites in Norway. The purpose of the study was to investigate the correlation between air concentration, precipitation and deposition, and identify areas with high deposition. Areas with high precipitation have been compared with monitoring stations in other countries. The base line data contain measurements of total beta in air and precipitation on a daily basis for the period 1956–1982. Radioactive Fallout correlated strongly with annual precipitation which varies from 280 to 4200 mm per year in Norway. The deposition of 137Cs was calculated to be 3.23±1.20 kBq/m2 per 1000 mm precipitation for the period 1955–1975. Also, the relationship between total beta and 137Cs has been investigated, in order to estimate the age of Fallout. The age of Fallout in Norway ranges from 3 to 9 months during the test periods, which is considerably shorter than the global average, where the mean residence time for debris in the lower stratosphere is estimated to be 1.3 years. There is no evidence of local Fallout from tests on Novaya Zemlya reaching Norwegian areas.
Janette D. Sherman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Fukushima Update: Radioactive Fallout and Mortality Increases in the United States: Is There a Correlation?:
International Journal of Health Services, 2012Co-Authors: Joseph J. Mangano, Janette D. ShermanAbstract:Our publication of “An Unexpected Mortality Increase in the United States Follows Arrival of the Radioactive Plume from Fukushima: Is There a Correlation?” in the International Journal of Health Services 42(1) reported an unusually elevated number of excess deaths in 122 U.S. cities during the 14 weeks following the mid-March 2011 arrival of airborne Radioactive Fallout from Japan. The publication has received considerable attention from scientists, media, and the public, since it is the first peer-reviewed publication to examine population-based data before and after the meltdowns at Fukushima. Most of the responses have been objective or supportive, with a minority offering criticisms of the methods and results. In this paper, we respond to several of the critiques, offering supportive evidence from our research and supportive research in the medical literature. We hope our comments are constructive and we view our research as a correlation, and potential evidence of a causal link, between Radioactive e...
Elizabeth Siegel Watkins - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Radioactive Fallout and Emerging Environmentalism: Cold war Fears and Public Health Concerns, 1954–1963
Science History and Social Activism, 2001Co-Authors: Elizabeth Siegel WatkinsAbstract:This essay considers the scientific, social, and political contexts of the debate over Radioactive Fallout. I contend that the growth of an environmental consensus in 1950s America was constrained both by the nature of the Fallout debate and by the cultural climate in which it took place.
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Radioactive Fallout and emerging environmentalism cold war fears and public health concerns 1954 1963
Boston studies in the philosophy of science, 2001Co-Authors: Elizabeth Siegel WatkinsAbstract:This essay considers the scientific, social, and political contexts of the debate over Radioactive Fallout. I contend that the growth of an environmental consensus in 1950s America was constrained both by the nature of the Fallout debate and by the cultural climate in which it took place.
