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Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project (HEDRP)
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/radiation/brochure/profile_hanford.htm

Description:
"The federal government's first comprehensive attempt to estimate the amount and type of radiation releases that people were exposed to during plant operations [1944-1990] at the Hanford Nuclear Weapons Production facility in Washington State." Main reports are Summary of Radiation Dose Estimates from Hanford Radioactive Materials Releases to the Air and the Columbia River (English and Spanish) and the controversial Hanford Thyroid Disease Study (HTDS) .

Publisher:
United States Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CD

Extra Keywords
radioactive iodine

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Hanford Site (Wash.)
Ionizing radiation -- Dosage
Nuclear facilities -- Washington (State) -- Hanford
Radioactive fallout -- Physiological effect

LII Database Information:
Record 12299 created by Judy Metcalf on 03/17/2003
Last modification on 09/27/2004
Published: 03/17/2003  
Funding agency: Washington State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/12299