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A Review of Two Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project (HEDR) Dosimetry Reports Columbia River Pathway and Atmospheric Pathway (1995) / Chapter Skim
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I. INTRODUCTION
Pages 6-12

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... At CDC's request, the National Research Council has organized the Committee on an Assessment of CDC Radiation Studies in the Board on Radiation Effects Research of the Commission on Life Sciences to provide scientific advice to CDC's Center for Environmental Health and Injury Control and to evaluate the quality and completeness of CDC's assessments. The committee's charge is as follows: · Review and comment on the design, methods, analysis, statistical reliability, and scientific interpretation of dose-reconstruction studies and related epidemiologic follow-up studies.
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... B HANFORD SITE HISTORY After President Roosevelt's 1941 directive to the Department of War to develop nuclear weapons, the Hanford site in southeast Washington State was selected as part of the national effort known as the Manhattan Engineer District Project.
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... Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction project study area. Reproduced with permission from PNWD-2228 HEDR (Ferris et al., 1994a)
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... Documents describing specific releases of radioactive materials were made available to the public in 1986. Also in 1986, the Hanford Health Effects Review Panel, formed to consider the potential health implications of past releases of radioactive materials from the Hanford site, recommended that DOE conduct a dosereconstruction project.
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... It also includes eight conclusions pertaining to the dose calculations, a table of the key sources of information on the Columbia River pathway, and a glossary. The report contains 78 other pages of text, six pages of references, and a 28-page appendix with lists of estimates of dose equivalents for red bone marrow and lower large intestine and of effective dose equivalents for each of 253 months and annual totals for the period 1950-1971.
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... Locks 7 Figure 2. Columbia River pathway mode} study area.
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... This document was produced by staff of HEDR's Environmental Pathways and Dose Estimates Task Group. It describes the methods used to estimate doses received by representative individuals who consumed contaminated foodstuffs, inhaled contaminated air, or were directly exposed to radioactive materials released from the Hanford site, and it presents re-estimates of many of the doses that were given in an earlier report of a feasibility study for the atmospheric pathway (Pacific Northwest Laboratory, 1991b)
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