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Food-Chain Contamination From Testing Nuclear Devices

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Radionuclides in the Food Chain

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Our more than 42 years of experience in dealing with radioactive contamination of our environment produced by fallout from the testing of nuclear devices began in 1945 in the desert near Alamagordo, NM. This first nuclear test was detonated on a 100-ft steel tower and resulted in radioactive fallout that was tracked and measured some few thousand miles across the United States toward the northeast.

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  1. International Radiation Protection Association and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, 30332, USA

    M. W. Carter

  2. Nuclear Engineering and Health Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA

    L. Hanley

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  1. P.O. Box M-268, Hoboken, NJ, 07030, USA

    John H. Harley Ph.D. (Consultant) (Consultant)

  2. US Food and Drug Administration, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Rockville, MD, 20857, USA

    Gail D. Schmidt M.Sc. (Health Physicist) (Health Physicist)

  3. 10025 Lloyd Road, Potomac, MD, 20854, USA

    Gail D. Schmidt M.Sc. (Health Physicist) (Health Physicist)

  4. United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), Vienna International Center, A-1400, Vienna, Austria

    Giovanni Silini Ph.D. (Secretary) (Secretary)

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Carter, M.W., Hanley, L. (1988). Food-Chain Contamination From Testing Nuclear Devices. In: Harley, J.H., Schmidt, G.D., Silini, G. (eds) Radionuclides in the Food Chain. ILSI Monographs. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1610-3_15

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