Exposure of the American People to Iodine-131 from Nevada Nuclear-Bomb Tests: Review of the National Cancer Institute Report and Public Health Implications

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. "Appendix E. Applicable Radiation Exposure Standards and Guides: Past and Present." Exposure of the American People to Iodine-131 from Nevada Nuclear-Bomb Tests: Review of the National Cancer Institute Report and Public Health Implications. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1999.

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Exposure of the American People to Iodine-131 from Nevada Nuclear-Bomb Tests: Review of the National Cancer Institute Report and Public Health Implications

4. U. S. Environmental Protection Agency and Food and Drug Administration

The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration in their guides to emergency and protective action insofar as dose to the thyroid is concerned set the standards for action as 5-25 rad and 1.5-15 rad, respectively. Their ingestion protective action guides are set at 1.5 rad and 15 rad, the former being the preventive action guide and the latter the emergency action guide. At thyroid doses of 25 rad or greater administration of stable iodine is recommended.

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