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Nearly 2,000 nuclear weapons tests have been conducted worldwide. The U.S. alone conducted 217 above-ground tests, about half of them at the Department of Energy’s Nevada Test Site (NTS), from the early 1950s to the early 1960s. Atmospheric fallout from these tests, and from the 30 underground tests known to have “vented” significant radiation, contained harmful radionuclides and was carried thousands of miles from the test site. At the time, the U.S. government assured the American public that testing was safe and necessary to protect them.
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Nearly 2,000 nuclear weapons tests have been conducted worldwide. The U.S. alone conducted 217 aboveground tests. About half of them were exploded at the Department of Energy’s Nevada Test Site from the early 1950s to the early 1960s. Atmospheric fallout from the aboveground tests, and the thirty underground tests known to have “vented” significant radiation contained harmful radionuclides and was carried thousands of miles from the Test Site. The government assured the public that testing was a safe and necessary part of protecting America.
In 1983 Congress directed the National Cancer Institute
(NCI) to study the health impacts of U.S.
nuclear testing fallout, in particular radioactive iodine,
I-131. After more than a decade and much pressure
from public interest groups and Congress, the
study was released in 1997.
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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA) REQUEST FILED FOR
LONG-COMPLETED FEDERAL STUDY
ON HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING
The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) today filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seeking to make public a long-completed study of the health effects of global nuclear weapons testing.
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January 9, 2006
The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA ) requests the following:
The Final Draft of the Feasibility Study of the Health Consequences to American People from Nuclear Weapons Tests Conducted by the U. S. and Other Nations that was transmitted to HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt's office for review and approval in May 2005.
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