Atmospheric Nuclear Tests: Environmental and Human Consequences

by Charles S. Shapiro (Editor)

Overview

Radionuclides produced by past nuclear weapon test explosions comprise the largest source of anthropogenic radioactivity released into the earth's atmosphere to date. This volume presents data and models about the fate of the released radionuclides and their possible effects on human health. It is divided into the following three parts:

- Source Term Studies;

- Dose Reconstruction;

- Ecological and Health Effects,

and comprises both Western and formerly secret Soviet research studies, illuminates past and current research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540638049
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	02/27/1998
Series:	Nato Science Partnership Subseries: 2 , #35
Edition description:	1998
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

• SCOPE-RADTEST: RADioactivity from Nuclear TEST Explosions: The Human and Environmental Consequences.- • Overview of the Proceedings and Papers of the NATO/SCOPE- RADTEST ARW in Vienna.- • Some Characteristics of Atmospheric Nuclear Tests at the USSR Test Sites (1949–62).- • The LLNL Nevada Test Site Underground Radionuclide Source-Term Inventory.- • Long-Range Atmospheric Transport of Radioactive Products from Nuclear Explosions Conducted in the USA, USSR, France, and China after 1963.- • Methodological Approaches to the Reconstruction of Radioactive Fallout Patterns and Radiation Burdens from Nuclear Explosions.- • Radionuclides Deposition over the Territories Adjacent to the Semipalatinsk Test Site According to the Data of Geophysical Surveys Carried Out in 1960s and 1990s.- • A Model for Nuclear Explosion Cloud Movement and Fallout Estimation.- • Assessment of Internal Radiation Dose from the Fallout of Nuclear Explosions.- • Overview of the Department of Energy’s Off-Site Radiation Exposure Review Project (ORERP).- • Historical Estimates of External— Exposure and Collective External— Exposure from Testing at the Nevada Test Site: II. Test Series After Hardtack II, 1958, and Summary.- • Estimates of Fallout in the Continental U.S. from Nevada Weapons Testing Based on Gummed-Film Monitoring Data.- • Models of Radioiodine Transport to Populations Within the Continental U.S.- • External Exposure Estimates for Individuals Near the Nevada Test Site.- • Assessment of the Potential Radiological Impact of Residual Contamination in the Maralinga and Emu Areas (Abstract).- • Semipalatinsk and Northern Test Sites in the USSR: Integrated Program of Radiation and Ecological Studies of the Environmental Consequences of Nuclear Tests.- •Radiological Consequences of Nuclear Testing for the Population of the Former USSR (Input Information, Models, Dose and Risk Estimates).- • Radiological Consequences of Global Fallouts of Nuclear Explosion Products Over the USSR Territory in 1966–1986.- • Radioactive Contamination from Nuclear Fallout and Health Evaluation in China.- • Mortality and Cancer Incidence 1952–1990 in UK Participants in the UK Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Tests and Experimental Programmes (Abstract).- List of Workshop Presentations.- List of Participants.