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Suggested Citation:"List of Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2003. A Review of the Dose Reconstruction Program of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10697.
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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS


AMAD

Activity median aerodynamic diameter

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

ASME

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

ASQC

American Society for Quality Control


BCT

Battalion Combat Team

BRER

Board on Radiation Effects Research


C and P

Compensation and Pension

CDR

Camp Desert Rock

CFR

Code of Federal Regulations

CIC

Coordination and Information Center

CIRRPC

Committee on Interagency Radiation Research and Policy Coordination

CV

Coefficient of variation


DHHS

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

DNA

Defense Nuclear Agency

DOD

U.S. Department of Defense

DOE

U.S. Department of Energy

DRI

Desert Research Institute

DTRA

Defense Threat Reduction Agency


EPA

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

EPR

Electron paramagnetic resonance


FBE

Film-badge equivalent

FOIA

Freedom of Information Act


GAO

General Accounting Office

GI

Gastrointestinal

GSD

Geometric standard deviation

GZ

Ground zero


ICRP

International Commission on Radiological Protection

ICRU

International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements

IOM

Institute of Medicine

IREP

Interactive RadioEpidemiological Program


LAN

Local area network

LET

Linear energy transfer


MC

Monte Carlo

MP

Military police


NA

Not applicable

NAAV

National Association of Atomic Veterans

NAS

National Academy of Sciences

NCI

National Cancer Institute

NCRP

National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements

Suggested Citation:"List of Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2003. A Review of the Dose Reconstruction Program of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10697.
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NIH

National Institutes of Health

NIOSH

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

NQA

Nuclear Quality Assurance

NRC

National Research Council

NTPR

Nuclear Test Personnel Review

NTS

Nevada Test Site

NuTRIS

Nuclear Test Review Information System


OPHEH

Office of Public Health and Environmental Hazards

ORNL

Oak Ridge National Laboratory


PC

Probability of causation

POW

Prisoner of war

PPG

Pacific Proving Ground


QA

Quality assurance

QC

Quality control

QF

Quality factor


Rad-safe

Radiological safety

RBM

Red bone marrow

RCT

Regimental Combat Team

REECO

Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Company

REF

Radiation Effectiveness Factor


SAIC

Science Applications International Corporation

SD

Standard deviation

SF

Shielding factor

SI

Systè me International (International System)

SOP

Standard operating procedure


TGLD

Task Group on Lung Dynamics

TNT

Trinitrotoluene

TU

Task unit


VA

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

VACO

Department of Veterans Affairs Central Office

VARO

Department of Veterans Affairs Regional Office

VITAL

Veterans Issue Tracking Adjudication Log


UB

Upper bound

USC

U.S. Code

USMC

U.S. Marine Corps

USS

U.S. Ship

UV

Ultraviolet

Suggested Citation:"List of Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2003. A Review of the Dose Reconstruction Program of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10697.
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From 1945 through 1962, the US atmospheric nuclear weapons testing program involved hundreds of thousands of military and civilian personnel, and some of them were exposed to ionizing radiation. Veterans' groups have since been concerned that their members' health was affected by radiation exposure associated with participation in nuclear tests and have pressured Congress for disability compensation. Several pieces of legislation have been passed to compensate both military and civilian personnel for such health effects. Veterans' concerns about the accuracy of reconstructed doses prompted Congress to have the General Accounting Office (GAO) review the dose reconstruction program used to estimate exposure. The GAO study concluded that dose reconstruction is a valid method of estimating radiation dose and could be used as the basis of compensation. It also recommended an independent review of the dose reconstruction program. The result of that recommendation was a congressional mandate that the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), a part of the Department of Defense, ask the National Research Council to conduct an independent review of the dose reconstruction program. In response to that request, the National Research Council established the Committee to Review the Dose Reconstruction Program of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency in the Board on Radiation Effects Research (BRER).

The committee randomly selected sample records of doses that had been reconstructed by DTRA and carefully evaluated them. The committee's report describes its findings and provides responses to many of the questions that have been raised by the veterans.

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