Long-Term Health Monitoring of Populations Following a Nuclear or Radiological Incident in the United States Proceedings of a Workshop (2019) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction and Background
1 Introduction and Background
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CDC is responsible for assisting state and local agencies with long-term population monitoring including establishing a radiation registry. CDC also performs many of the administrative functions of ATSDR, an independent operating agency within HHS directed by congressional mandate to perform health surveillance and registries.
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A number of participants said that the workshop achieved its goal and some commented on its value in bringing the emergency management community together to discuss the challenges for setting up a radiation registry. For instance, a representative of a local health department in Texas noted that his initial concern with attending the workshop was that the federal vision regarding a radiation registry would outstrip local capacity.
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setting up and maintaining a radiation registry following a nuclear or radiological incident. However, a dose reconstruction expert observed from the workshop discussions that there was compartmentalization of resources across agencies and organizations without a common plan for coordinating those for setting up a radiation registry.
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. 1.3 BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND CONTEXT This section provides background information and context on radiation health effects, the expected impacts of different nuclear or radiological incidents, and radiation dose reconstruction for assessing those impacts.
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Radiation Emergency Medical Preparedness and Assistance Network or the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA's) Radiation Assistance Network.3 Exposure to whole-body doses of less than about 2 Gy does not generally cause immediate health effects but it can increase the overall risk of developing radiation-related disease in the future.
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A potential radiation registry could enroll individuals in one or more of these categories. 1.3.2 Impacts of Nuclear and Radiological Incidents The impacts of a nuclear or radiological incident will vary depending on the type of the incident and therefore the size of the radiation registry that enrolls the affected individuals will also vary.
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SOURCE: Modified slide from presentation by Dr. Stephen Musolino (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
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4 The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is a nuclear power plant located south of Saint Clemente, California, that is currently being decommissioned, but for the purposes of this illustration it is assumed to be operating.
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, protective actions such as food embargoes can prevent the dose from affecting members of the public. The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is currently being decommissioned but for the purposes of this illustration it is assumed to be operating.
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John Till (Risk Assessment Corporation) said that radiation dose reconstruction is a fundamental step in assessing the impacts of nuclear and radiological incidents and the associated need for long-term health
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Every dose reconstruction has information gaps due to incomplete, insufficient, or undocumented data, or due to data accessibility issues. As a result, dose reconstruction experts have to use mathematical modeling to fill in the data gaps and face the challenge of communicating the resulting uncertainties in the doses assigned to the populations.
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The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases conduct and support research in biodosimetry. For example, researchers at Columbia University, with support from these two agencies, developed a completely automated, ultra-high throughput biodosimetric platform called RABiT (Rapid Automated Biodosimetry Tool)
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