Overview of the Department of Energy’s Off-Site Radiation Exposure Review Project (ORERP)

Church, Bruce W.; Wheeler, David; Campbell, C. M.; Nutley, R. V.; Anspaugh, L.R.

doi:10.1007/978-3-662-03610-5_10

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“…time of arrival of the cloud) that was the culprit in delivering the higher levels of fallout and dose. The total doses in southern Utah from the fallout from all Nevada tests have been estimated to be between 1-30 mSv (BECK 1966, BECK et al 1998, CHURCH et al 1998, ANSPAUGH and CHURCH 1986, LLOYD et al 1990). Most of this dose in Southern Utah was from 131 I and gamma-shine from shortlived radionuclides.…”

Section: Comparison Of Dose From Fallout Background Radiation and Mmentioning

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<sup>137</sup>Cs Environmental Half-life without Remediation: Impact on Radiation Dose

Brooks

Church²,

Smith

et al. 2016

Jpn. J. Health Phys.

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Cs is an important long-term contributor to radiation dose and risk following a nuclear accident. Its high abundance (about Fukushima accident. After this event, extensive amounts of time and money were invested to clean-up and limit the transport of 137 Cs into the food chain. However, since the biological and environmental half-lives of 137 Cs are short, they limit its availability and exposure in people. This paper demonstrates how historical data on the environmental half-life of 137 Cs in both 137 Cs activity in milk from selected dairy farms and total body burdens in the farmers exposed to fallout in Utah were determined. The activity in milk decreased each year from spring to summer, while the activity in the farmers increased with time and varied by a factor of about ten (100-1,400 Bq). Fallout provided a continuing resupply of 137 Cs into humans. If resupply were to be prevented or limited by remediation, 137 Cs would clear from the body as a function of the effective half-life of 104 days measured in Fukushima. Blocking the entry of 137 Cs would have reduced the body-burden in Utah farmers by a factor of almost ten. Data in this cleanup can be compared.

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Section: Comparison Of Dose From Fallout Background Radiation and Mmentioning

confidence: 99%

<sup>137</sup>Cs Environmental Half-life without Remediation: Impact on Radiation Dose

Brooks

Church²,

Smith

et al. 2016

Jpn. J. Health Phys.

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“…From 1951 to 1992, 220 of approximately 900 above-and below-ground nuclear tests (Church et al, 1990 ;Thompson & McArthur, 1996) from the Nevada Test Site (NTS) released radioactive fallout over large areas. The tests released primarily radioactive iodine-131, cesium-131, strontium-90, plutonium, tritium, and other noble gases.…”

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Participatory Research Strategies in Nuclear Risk Management for Native Communities

Quigley

Handy²,

Goble³

et al. 2000

Journal of Health Communication

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The Nuclear Risk Management for Native Communities (NRMNC) project is a collaborative academic, community-based, tribal project, which conducts the three essential elements of participatory research: research, education, and community action, named here as "community-based hazards management." This article describes the goals and outcomes of this effort in assisting Native American communities in Nevada, Utah, and Southern California affected by nuclear fallout from U.S. weapons testing in the 1950s and 1960s. The NRMNC project sought to create new models for dealing with health research and risk communication needs in an environmental justice setting. The following results of this four-year project are discussed: (1) building a community-based environmental health infrastructure, (2) building community capacities through workshops and educational materials, (3) conducting both technical and community research, and (4) facilitating community-based hazards management planning. We describe such positive outcomes as the improvements in the scientific database through participatory research activities, the development of equitable relationships between scientists and community members, and the creation of a sustaining program intervention for long-term community needs. The project's outcomes are presented as an expansion to limited scientific risk management outcomes in the environmental health field that often are solely quantitative and lack relevance to community concerns about environmental health impacts from contamination.

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“…Between 1980 and 1985, all of the available data on fallout from the NTS were reanalyzed as part of the ORERP (Beck 1984;Anspaugh et al 1990;Beck et al 1990;Cederwall et al 1990;Church et al 1990;Quinn 1990;Ward and Whicker 1990;Whicker et al 1990;Beck and Anspaugh 1991;Grossman and Thompson 1993;Thompson et al 1994 The strategy adopted for the RIDP combined three methods: Aerial surveys, soil-sample collection and analysis, and field-gamma-ray spectrometry. The aerial surveys, carried out with an array of scintillation detectors mounted on a helicopter, showed overall distribution patterns but were not useful for quantifying individual radionuclides.…”

Section: Determination Of the Activity Per Unit Area Of 137 Cs In Thementioning

confidence: 99%

Inventory and distribution of residual 137cs on and near the Nevada Test Site

Daniels¹,

Anspaugh²,

McArthur³

1999

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Overview of the Department of Energy’s Off-Site Radiation Exposure Review Project (ORERP)

Cited by 10 publications

References 18 publications

<sup>137</sup>Cs Environmental Half-life without Remediation: Impact on Radiation Dose

<sup>137</sup>Cs Environmental Half-life without Remediation: Impact on Radiation Dose

Participatory Research Strategies in Nuclear Risk Management for Native Communities

Inventory and distribution of residual 137cs on and near the Nevada Test Site

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