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US-JAPAN JOINT REASSESSMENT OF

ATOMIC BOMB RADIATION DOSIMETRY

IN HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI



FINAL REPORT

VOLUME 1

CONTENTS
HISTORICAL REVIEW
George D. Kerr, Tadashi Hashizume, and Charles W. Edington
1
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Robert F. Christy and Eizo Tajima
14
RADIATION SOURCES AND RADIATION TRANSPORT
CHAPTER 1. YIELDS OF THE BOMBS
John Malik, Eizo Tajima, Gilbert Binninger, Dean C. Kaul, and George D. Kerr
26
CHAPTER 2. CALCULATION AND VERIFICATION OF SOURCE TERMS
Paul P. Whalen
37
CHAPTER 3. TRANSPORT OF INITIAL RADIATIONS IN AIR OVER GROUND
George D. Kerr, Joseph V. Pace, III, Edgar Mendelsohn, William E. Loewe, Dean C. Kaul, Farhad Dolatshahi, Stephen D. Egbert, Michael Gritzner, William H. Scott, Jr., Jess Marcum, Toshiso Kosako, and Keiji Kanda
66
RADIATION MEASUREMENTS
CHAPTER 4. THERMOLUMINESCENCE MEASUREMENTS OF GAMMA RAYS
Takashi Maruyama, Yoshikazu Kumamoto, Yoneta Ichikawa, Tsuneto Nagatomo, Masaharu Hoshi, Edwin Haskell, Prasad Kaipa
143
CHAPTER 5. MEASUREMENTS OF NEUTRON FLUENCES
William E. Loewe, Edgar Mendelsohn, Tatsuji Hamada, Takashi Maruyama, Shunzo Okajima, Joseph V. Pace, III, Masanobu Sakanoue, Sohei Kondo, Tadashi Hashizume, Jess Marcum, William A. Woolson
185
CHAPTER 6. RADIATION DOSES FROM RESIDUAL RADIOACTIVITY
Shunzo Okajima, Shoichiro Fujita, and John H. Harley
205
RADIATION SHIELDING AND SODIMETRY
CHAPTER 7. HOUSE AND TERRAIN SHIELDING
William A. Woolson, Michael L. Gritzner, Stephen D. Egbert, James A. Roberts, and Mark D. Otis, and Shoichiro Fujita
227
CHAPTER 8. ORGAN DOSIMETRY
Dean C. Kaul, Stephen D. Egbert, Mark D. Otis, Thomas Kuhn, George D. Kerr, Keith F. Eckerman, Mark Cristy, Takashi Maruyama, Jeffrey C. Ryman, and Jabo S. Tang
306
CHAPTER 9. DOSIMETRY SYSTEM 1986
WilliamA. Woolson, Stephen D. Egbert, and Michael L. Gritzner
405
AUTHORS AND INSTITUTIONS432