Publications on the Effects of Fallout Radiation on the Marshallese

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PUBLICATIONS ON THE EFFECTS OF FALLOUT P RADIATION ON THE MARSHALLESE Compiled by Robert A. Conard DOCUMENTDO~ NOT CONTAIN ECI Brookhaven National Laboratory Report, BNL 384 (T-71, 1955.) Physical Factors and Dosimetry in the Marshall Island Radiation Exposures. Skin Lesions, Epilacion and Nail Pigmentation in ?larshalleseand Americans Accidentally Coccc.;.i:,c:ed with Radioactive Fallout. Xaval Medical Xcsearch Institute and Kaval Radiological Defense Laboratory, Response of Xtima.nBeings Accidentally Zxposzd to Significant Fallout Radiation A Naval Medical Team Studies Fallout Effec~s. Office of Naval Research, Research Reviews, NAVEXOS P-51O, pp. 1-9, November 1955. Emergency Laboratory Organization for the Care of Large Numbers of Human Beings Accidentally Exposed to Ionizing Radiation. Medical Examination of che Rongelap People Six Months after Exposure to Fallout Radiatidn during 0perat20n Castle. Operation Castle Addendua Report 4.1A WT-937, April, 1955. The Effects of Fallout Radiation on the Skin In: The Shorter Term Biological Hazards of a Fallout Field, AEC-DOD, pp. 135-142, “-.Some Effects of Ioriizi:-.gRadiatioc on Human Beings: A Report of the Marshallese.. and Americans i+ccide:.~=llyExposed co Radiation from Fallout and a Discussion of Radiation Injury in che Huiiar:Being. Kzval Med. Res.Inst., Xsvzl kadiol. Defense Lab. and Brookhaven Nat. Lab., 114 p.,

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Response of Human Beings Accidentally Exposed to Sibmificant Fallout Radiation from a Thermonuclear Explosion (Summary). Oliver and Boyd, Edinborough, London, pp. 491-493, 1956. Medical Survey of the Mar.shallescTwo Years After Exposure to Fallout Radiation. Measurements on Some Residents of the Marshall Islands. Radioactive Contamination of Certain Areas in the Pacific Ocean from Nuclear Tests, A Summary of the Data from the Radiological Surveys and Medical Examination. March 1957 Medical Survey of Rongelap and Utirik people Three Years After Exposure

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Blood Groupings in Marshallese. Effects of Fallout Radiation on a Human Population. Radiac. Res. Suppl. 1, 280-295, 1959. Health Survey of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Medical Survey of Marshallese People Five Years after Exposure to Presented at the Symposium on the Immediate and Low Level Effects Radiations, Venice-,June, 1959. A special supplement (SUPP1. 1) to the Into J. Radiation Biology, Taylor and Francis, Ltd., London, pp. 269-81, 1960. Radioisotopes and Environmental Circumstances: The Internal Radioactive contamination of a Pacific Island community exposed to local fallout. In: Radioisotopes in the Biosphere, Chapter XXI, Ed. R. S. Caldecott and L. A. Snyder, University of Minnesota Center for Continuation Study of the General Extension Division, pp. 306-36, 1960. Medical Status of Marshall Islanders in 1959, Five Years after Exposure to Medical survey of Rongelap people five and six years after exposure to fallout. \ Addendum: A note on the vegetation of the northern islets of Rongelap Atoll, Marshall Islands, March 1959. An attempt to quantify some clinical criteria of aging.

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The biological hazards of a fallout field. In: Radioactivity in Man, Ed. G. R. Meneely, Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Electrolytes in hypertension: The effects of sodium chloride. The evidence from animal and human studies. The Medical Clinics of North An isoprecipitation reaction and uskim~s; in Africans; and in M.icronesians. Possible role of chronic excess salt consumption in the pathogenesis of essential The Am. J. Cardiology VIII(4), 571-575 and 587-592 (paneldiscussion), 1961. ‘Medical survey of Rongelap people seven years after exposur~ EO fallou~. Use of a portable whole-body counter to measure internal contamination in a Medical survey of Rongelap people eight years after exposure to fallout. . Metabolism of fission products in man: Marshallese experience. IAEA Int. Symp. on Diagnosis and Treatment of Radioactive Poisoning, 15-18 Oct. 1962, Vienna. International Atomic Energy Agency, Austria, pp. 235-251, 1963. Long-term intra-oral findings in humans after exposure to total body irradiation from sudden radioactive fallout. I. Five years post-detonation studies. .... J. Amer. Dent. Assoc. 68, 49-56, 1964. In: Atomic Medicine, Chap. 10, 4th Edition, Ed. C. F. Behrens, The Williams and

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Fallout radiation: Effects on the skin. In: Atomic Medicine, Chap. 12, 4th Edition, Ed. C. F. Behrens, The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, pp. 281-302, 1964. A polio epidemic in the Pacific Ocean. Providing for the settlement of claims of certain residents of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Report No. 1257 from the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, 2nd Session Indirect effect of X-irradiation on bone growth in rats. Annals of the N. Y. Acad. of Sciences 114, 335-338, 1964.

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Fallout of the cold war. Elevation of the serum protein-bound Thyroid nodules as a late sequela of population exposed in 1954. iodine level in inhabitants of the Marshall radioactive fallout in a Marshall Island... New Eng. J. Med. 274, 1392-1399, 1966. Radionuclide body burdens in the Rongelap population. Abstr. 750, Third International Congress of Radiation Research, p. 189, Cortina— Aging studies in Presented at the a Marshallese population exposed to radioactive fallout in 1954. Colloquium on Radiation and Aging, Semmering, Austria, June 23HOW much irradiation did children receive from atomic testing in the 50’s? What were the effects of this irradiation? ,/” Scientist 2nd Citizen, September 1966. Etiology and treatment of hyperthyroidism. Two-Panel Discussions on Hyperthyroidism, 11 Etiology and Treatment of Hyper- . thyroidism in the Adult, Chicago, October 13, 1966. J. Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 27, 1763-1767, 1967 (S. C. Werner, Late effects of radioactive iodine in fallout. Ann. Internal Med. 66, 1214-1242, 1967. developments of thyroid nodules in Marshallese population accidentally to radioactive fallout in 1954. Academy of Medicine Bulletin, p. 25, March 1967. survey of the people of Rongelap and Utirik Islands eleven and twelve ..years after exposure to fallout radiation (March 1965, March 1966).

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Chromosome studies on Narshall Islanders exposed to fallout radiation. Proceedings of Second Interdisciplinary Conference on Selected Effects of a DASIAC Special Report 95, July 1969. Thyroid nodules as a lace effect of exposure to fallout. Radiation-Induced Cancer, Proceedings of a Symposium, Athens, May 1969, Effects of:fallout radiation on Marshallese children.

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A radiological study of Rongelap Atoll, Marshall Islands during 1954-1955. Applied Fisheries Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle. The occurrence and distribution of radioactive nonfission products in plants and animals bf the Pacific proving ground. University of Washington Fisheries Laboratory Report UWFL-51, Technical Radiobiological studies of the fish collected ac Rongelap and Ailingnae Atolls, ., Office of Technical Services, U. S. Dept. of Commerce, in Rongelap Atoll soil. Office of Technical Services, U. S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., Long-term effects of radioactive fallout on plants? Atoll Research Bulletin No. 61, issued by The Pacific Science Board, NAS, Strontium-90 and gross beta activity in the fat and non-fat fractions of coconut crab (Birgus latro) liver collected at Rongelap Atoll during Potassium and cesium-137 in Birgus Iatro .(coconutcrab) muscle collected at IiarineBiological Association of India, Vol. 2, no. 1, 1961.

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Use of the tension lysimeter in glacial till and coral atoll soils. Soils Science Society of America Proceedings, VO1. 25, No. 4, 1961. Nitrogen studies of Rongelap Atoll soils. Paper presented at the Tenth Pacific Science Congress, Honolulu, August 1961. Radiocesium in plants grown on Rongelap Atoll soil. Recent Advances in Botany, University of Toronto press> 1961” Qualitative distribution of radionuclides at Rongelap Atoll. In: Radioecology, Rheinhold Publishing Corp., New York, 1963. Moulting behavior of Birgus latro. Chemical and radiochemical composition of the Rongelapese diet. Journal of Food Science, Vol. 28, No. 2, 1963. Ecological observations of sea cucumbers Holothuria ~ and ~“ leucOspilOta at Rongelap Atoll, Marshall Islands. pacific Science, Vol. ~11, No. 3, 1963. Determination of plankton biomass in Rongelap Atoll, Marshall Islands, by use of a multi-net plankton pump. Autoradiography of sectioned soil cores. In: Radioisotope Sample Measurement Techniques in Medicine and Biology. International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, 1965, pages 553-560. Atoll soil types in relation to the distribution of fallout radionuclides. Laboratory of Radiation Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Recovery of the land plants at Eniwetok Atoll Following a nuclear detonation. Radiation Botany, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1962 ,.. Nickel-63 in marine and terrestrial biota, soil, and sediment. Thomas M. Beasley and Edward E. Held.

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Lead-210 production by nuclear devices: 1946-1958. GamiiaDose Rates at Rongelap Atoll, 1954-1963. UWL-91 (TID-4500), Clearinghouse for Federal, Scientific and Technical Information, National Bureau of Standards, U. S. Department of Commerce, Report of Repatriation of the Rongclap people for the U. S. Atomic Albuquerque Operations Office, Albuquerque, New Mexico (Official USe Only). Holmes & Narver, Inc. (no date). Plants of Bikini and other northern Marshall Islands. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1950. Kili Journal: August 28 to September 18, 1954. .. Report of the District Anthropologist,Marshall Islands District, Majuro, Marshall Islands, October 1963. Circulation systems of Bikini and Rongelap lagoons. (Bikini and Nearby Atolls: Part II, Oceanography (Physical); Geological Proving ground: an account of the radiobiological studies in the Pacific, Neal O. Hines, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1962. Some ecological aspects of coral atoll beach colonization Thesis for the Ph. D. degree, 1968. Bottom sediments of Rongelap Lagoon, Marshall Islands. Thesis forll. S. degree, 1961. The soils of Rongelap Atoll, Marshall Islands. Effects of the biological specificity of zinc on the distribution of’zinc-65 in the fish fuana of a coral atoll lagoon. T. Joyner. (Lab. Rad. Biol., Univ. Wash., Seattle)

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A description of nitrogen and phosphorus distribution in some Rongelap Atoll land ecosystems. Thesis for M. S. degree in Forestry, 1964. Copepods of Rongelap Atoll. Thesis for M. S. degree, to be published, 1966.

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Raciiochcmicalanalysis of the body of the late Mr. Kuboyama. K. Kimura, et al. Research in the Effects and Influences of the Nuclear Bomb Test Explosions, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Vol. I, pp. 521-527, 1956. Some observations on the victims of the Bikini H-bomb test. Research in the Effects and Influences of the Nuclear Bomb Test Explosions, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Vol. 11, pp. 1333-1351, 1956. Characteristics of hematological findings of the Japanese fishermen exposed to radioactive ashes in Bikini area. Proc. VIIIth Intern. Cong. Hem., 1: 29-34, 1962. Clinical studies on persons injured by radioactive materials. Diagnosis and Treatment of Radioactive Poisoning: 253-272, I.A.E.A., 1962. Clinical studies and hematological characteristics of Bikini radiation injury. \ Nihon Ketsuekigaku Zensho, 3: 660-703, 1964. Chromosome aberrations in human leukocytes irradiated in vivo and in vitro. Acts Haem. Jap., 28(3): 291-306, 1965. Medical survey of Japanese exposed to fall-out radiation in 1954. A report National InstituEe of Radiological Sciences Report, Chiba Shi, Japan, pp. 1-14, Radiochemical Studies on the radioactive dust due to the nuclear detonation at the Bikini Atoll on 1st March, 1954 Research in the Effects and Influences of the Nuclear Bomb Test Explosions I Published by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1956. Radiochemical Studies on “Bikini Ashes” March 1, 1954, Part 1. Research in the Effects and Influences of the Nuclear Bomb Test Explosions I Published by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1956. Radiochemical Studies on “Bikini Ashes” March 1, 1954. Part II. A Consideration on their formation. l Research in the Effects and Influences of the Nuclear Bomb Test.Explo&ions I ..”’ Published by-the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1956.

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Rad.iochemicalanalysis of the dust due to the thermonuclear test on March 1, Research in the Effects and Influences of the Nuclear Bomb Test Explosions 1 Published by Japan Society for ~he Promotion of Science, 1956. Radiochemical analysis of the Bikini ashes. Research in the Effects and Influences of the Nuclear Bomb Test Explosions I , Published by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1956. Chromosome studies on Japanese exposed to radiation resulting from nuclear Cytogenetic studies on fishermen exposed to fallout radiation in 1954. Takaaki Ishihara and Toshiyuki Kumatori, \ Japanese Journal of Genetics, Vol. 44, Suppl. 1, pp-242-251, July 1969