Published March 1988
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Journal article
Mortality and cancer incidence in UK participants in UK atmospheric nuclear weapon tests and experimental programmes
Description
A brief report is given of a study by the NRPB on the mortality and cancer incidence in UK participants in UK atmospheric nuclear weapon tests and experimental programmes. The results of 22,347 participants were compared with a population of 22,326 controls. It was concluded that participation in the nuclear weapons tests had no detectable effect on the participants' expectation of life or on their total risk of developing cancer, apart possibly from an effect on the risks from developing multiple myeloma and leukaemia. (U.K.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Radiol. Prot. Bull.
- Journal Issue
- no.90
- Series
- Radiol. Prot. Bull.
- ISSN
- 0308-4272
- CODEN
- RDPBA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- United Kingdom
- INIS RN
- 19058301
- Subject category
- S63: RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;
- Descriptors DEI
- AVIATION PERSONNEL; DELAYED RADIATION EFFECTS; DISEASE INCIDENCE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; PERSONNEL MONITORING; RADIATION HAZARDS; UNITED KINGDOM
- Descriptors DEC
- BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DISEASES; EUROPE; EXPLOSIONS; HAZARDS; HEALTH HAZARDS; MONITORING; PERSONNEL; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIATION MONITORING