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Mortality among workers at the Pantex weapons facility

Journal Article · · Health Phys.; (United States)
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The authors compared total and cause-specific mortality for workers at the Pantex nuclear weapons assembly facility employed between 1951 and 31 December 1978 with expected mortality based on US death rates. They observed significantly fewer deaths than expected from all causes of death, all cancers, digestive cancers, lung cancer, arteriosclerotic heart disease, and digestive diseases. There were no causes of death which occurred significantly more frequently than expected. Analyses of worker mortality by duration of employment, time since first employment, and radiation exposure greater than 1.00 rem produced similar results. They found no evidence that mortality from any cause of death was increased as a result of employment at Pentex.
Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Lab., NM
OSTI ID:
5268559
Journal Information:
Health Phys.; (United States), Journal Name: Health Phys.; (United States) Vol. 48:6; ISSN HLTPA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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560151* -- Radiation Effects on Animals-- Man
560306 -- Chemicals Metabolism & Toxicology-- Man-- (-1987)
63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.
BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS
BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS
BODY
BRAIN
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES
CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
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DISEASE INCIDENCE
DISEASES
DOSES
EPIDEMIOLOGY
EXTERNAL IRRADIATION
HAZARDS
HEALTH HAZARDS
HEART
HEMIC DISEASES
IRRADIATION
LEUKEMIA
LUNGS
MORTALITY
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NEOPLASMS
NERVOUS SYSTEM
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
ORGANS
PANTEX PLANT
PERSONNEL
RADIATION DOSES
RADIATION EFFECTS
RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
RESPIRATORY SYSTEM DISEASES
SOLVENTS
US DOE
US ERDA
US ORGANIZATIONS
WEAPONS
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