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I-131 NCI Reports

• Fallout From Nuclear Tests and Cancer Risks

• October, 1997 Report, "Estimated Exposures and Thyroid Doses Received by the American People from Iodine-131 in Fallout Following Nevada Atmospheric Nuclear Bomb Tests"

  • Overall US per capita thyroid doses from all exposure from all tests

  • Gummed Film Network

  • Deposition of I-131 after each nuclear test

  • Cow's milk distribution

  • Map of estimated thyroid doses by test series

    • Ranger and Buster-Jangle

    • Tumbler-Snapper and Knothole

  • List of US nuclear detonations

  • Per capita consumption of milk

  • Estimated thyroid doses for various scenarios

  • List of Appendices

  • Doses by Series, Test, and County

    • By state and county

  • Dose/risk calculator

• October 1997 Congressional Testimony - Statement of Richard D. Klausner, M.D., Director, National Cancer Institute before Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health, and Human Services, Education and Related Activities.

• December 1997 - Methodology for the Calculation of the Estimated Lifetime Risk of Radiation-Related Thyroid Cancer in the United States from Nevada Test Site Fallout

• 1999 IOM Report - Exposure of the American People to Iodine-131 from Nevada Nuclear-Bomb Tests