Fallout from nuclear weapons tests. Hearings before the Special Subcommittee on Radiation of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Congress of the United States, Eighty-Sixth Congress, First Session on fallout from nuclear weapons tests, May 5, 6, 7, and 8, 1959. Volume 1
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Public hearings were held May 5 to 8, 1959, on fallout from nuclear weapons tests. Volume 1 reviews developments since the 1957 hearings and presents new data on atmospheric and global fallout levels. It was stated that the program of fallout sampling and monitoring supported by the AEC is quite comprehensive and during 1959 approximately $2.6 million was spent on a program of scientific research with the purpose of understanding the factors that influence the patterns and rates of fallout onto the earth's surface. This has meant sampling longitudinally, latitutinally, and vertically. A training program for scientists to carry out this program was maintained. Experimental and laboratory work centered on the movement of fallout into the food chain and water supplies and the effects of ionizing radiation on the human body and on human germ cells.
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GLOBAL ASPECTS
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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.
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CONTAMINATION
DOSES
DRINKING WATER
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GLOBAL ASPECTS
HEARINGS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
MASS TRANSFER
NEVADA TEST SITE
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RADIATION DOSES
RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION
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