Mortality of Veteran Participants in the CROSSROADS Nuclear Test (1996) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix D: Radiation Doses for CROSSROADS Participants and Exposure Surrogate Groups
Appendix D: Radiation Doses for CROSSROADS Participants and Exposure Surrogate Groups
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noted that these data may provide a rough estimate of the magnitude of doses received by the Atomic Veterans: Of 210,000 participating veterans, about 1,200 received doses that were estimated to exceed 50 mSv (5 rem) , which is the present annual exposure limit set by the U.S.
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13) study also noted that, "Although there is anecdotal evidence that individual doses may have been greatly underestimated in individual cases, the overall tendency may have been to overestimate both external and internal doses." Even so, the doses of record for the CROSSROADS participants are comparable in magnitude and variability to the additional doses received in one decade by residents of the Rocky Mountain region as compared with those received by residents of the rest of the United States.
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for Occupational Groups by their Status as Boarders or Nonboarders. See Chapter 8 for a description of the occupational categories.
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