Film Badge Dosimetry in Atmospheric Nuclear Tests (1989) / Chapter Skim
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DNA and DOE representatives testified on radiation exposures of test participants and on efforts to identify military participants. Veterans who participated in PLUMBBOB and who later became ill with leukemia testified on their requests to the Veterans Administration (VA)
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This file contains more than 485,000 entries on both military and civilian participants in the atmospheric test series and includes records of about 143,000 of the estimated 205,000 military-affiliated participants in atmospheric testing. The Eisenbud committee found that the design of film badges, methods of film processing, and densitometric techniques and calibration were relatively crude
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This report covered investigation of film badge dosimetry for cloud-sampling, cloudpenetrating, and cloud-tracking air crews, in addition to supporting ground crews, who participated in Operations TUMBLER-SNAPPER, REDWING, and DOMINIC I Report conclusions regarding film badges were that badge readings for pilots were sometimes half the readings indicated by radiation monitoring instruments installed in cockpits, inaccuracies resulted because measurement ranges of two films in the badges did not sufficiently overlap, and records of film badge exposures and cumulative exposures contained recording mistakes or omissions.
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STATEMENT OF TASK The Committee's task is to evaluate certainties in the determination of radiation doses with personnelfilm badge dosimeters. This study shallfocus, as follows, on methodologyfor dose determination with specific types of film badges employed at different times and in different environments during atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons, based on published data and documentation that are available for analysis: 1.
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Law 100-321~. The law amends Section 312 of Title 38 of the United States Code by establishing that veterans who, while serving on active duty, participated onsite in a test involving the atmospheric detonation of a nuclear device (or in the occupation of Hiroshima or Nagasaki, Japan, between August 6, 1945, and July 1, 1946, or were interred as prisoners of war in Japan)
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Civilians are thus unlikely to succeed in suits brought against the government for exposure to radiation from atmospheric tests unless Congress changes the relevant law. In 198B, Congress adopted legislation that turned the Veterans Administration into the fourteenth Cabinet department of the United States in March, 1989 (Department of Veterans Affairs Act, Pub.
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