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| Title | Evaluation of thyroid radioactivity measurement data from Hanford workers, 1944--1946 |
| Creator/Author | Ikenberry, T.A. |
| Publication Date | 1991 May 01 |
| OSTI Identifier | OSTI ID: 5703725; Legacy ID: DE91011792 |
| Report Number(s) | PNL-7254-HEDR |
| DOE Contract Number | AC06-76RL01830 |
| Other Number(s) | Other: ON: DE91011792 |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
| Research Org | Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (USA) |
| Sponsoring Org | DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (USA) |
| Subject | 63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.; HUMAN POPULATIONS; RADIATION DOSES; THYROID; RADIONUCLIDE KINETICS; COMPILED DATA; CONTAMINATION; DOSE RATES; DOSEMETERS; DOSIMETRY; HANFORD RESERVATION; IODINE 131; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BODY; DATA; DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; DOSES; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT; GLANDS; INFORMATION; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; IODINE ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; MASS TRANSFER; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NUCLEI; NUMERICAL DATA; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; ORGANS; POPULATIONS; RADIOISOTOPES; US DOE; US ERDA; US ORGANIZATIONS |
| Description/Abstract | This report describes the preliminary results of an evaluation conducted in support of the Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction (HEDR) Project. The primary objective of the HEDR Project is to estimate the radiation doses that populations could have received from nuclear operations at the Hanford Site since 1944. A secondary objective is to make information that HEDR staff members used in estimate radiation doses available to the public. The objectives of this report to make available thyroid measurement data from Hanford workers for the year 1944 through 1946, and to investigate the suitability of those data for use in the HEDR dose estimation process. An important part of this investigation was to provide a description of the uncertainty associated with the data. Lack of documentation on thyroid measurements from this period required that assumptions be made to perform data evaluations. These assumptions introduce uncertainty into the evaluations that could be significant. It is important to recognize the nature of these assumptions, the inherent uncertainty, and the propagation of this uncertainty, and the propagation of this uncertainty through data evaluations to any conclusions that can be made by using the data. 15 refs., 1 fig., 5 tabs. |
| Country of Publication | United States |
| Language | English |
| Format | Medium: X; Size: Pages: (143 p) |
| Availability | OSTI; NTIS; INIS; GPO Dep. |
| System Entry Date | 2008 Feb 07 |
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