文档介绍：SOME EFFECTS OF
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‘\ RaLiation
ON HUMAN BEINGS
A Report otz the
from the
Naval Medical Research Institute
Mdrsld)ese ad American
Bethesda 14, Maryland
U. S. Naval Radiological Defense
Laboratory Exposed to Radi~tzon
San Francisco, California
and a Dzwwszon of
Medical Department
Brookhaven National Laboratory kzditi~iotz Injury in the
Upton, New York
Edited by Hwviwv Being
E. P. Cronkite
V. P. Bond
and C. L. Dunham
UNITED STATES
ATOMIC MISSION
REPOSITORY t3NL REcoRDS JULY 1956
COLLECTION IY4J?S”H4LLIILANLK
TID 5358
For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office,
Washington 25, D. C.
Introduction
ON 31AROH 1, 1954, an experimental thermo- Interim care and study had been capably
nuclear device was exploded at the U. S. Atomic handled by the small medical department of the
mission% Eniwetok Proving U. S. Naval Station, Kwajalein, Marshall Is-
Grounds in the Marshall Islands. Following lands mander of the naval station had
the detonation, unexpected changes in the wind arranged living facilities for the exposed Mar-
structure deposited radioactive materials on shallese, and installed laboratory and clinical
inhabited atolls and on ships of Joint Task facilities as requested immediately upon arrival
Force #7, which was conducting the tests. of the medical team.
Radiation surveys of the areas revealed injuri- Full cooperation and support from all agen-
ous radiation levels; therefore, evacuation was cies in the field enabled the medical team to
ordered, and was carried out as quickly as pos- operate at maximum efficiency, so that the de-
sible with the facilities available to the Task gree of radiation injury could be assessed
Force. quickly, and appropriate care and study of the
Although the calculated accumulated doses to injured could be instituted without delay. All
the exposed human beings were believed to be of the exposed individuals have recovered fro