atomveteran

⚔ ☢ Græsk: Forhåndværende soldat som i løbet af sin tjenestetid har overværet et eller flere atomvåbenforsøg og som følge deraf har været udsat for farlige niveauer af nuklear (radioaktiv) stråling.
Historie: Ifølge operation Ranger 1982, "I 1977, 15 år efter det sidste overjordiske atomvåbenforsøg, bemærkede det amerikanske Center for Disease Control et muligt leukæmi koncentrat blandt en lille gruppe soldater der var til stede ved Shot Smoky, en del af Operation PLUMBBOB, en serie af atmosfæriske atomprøvesprængninger gennemført i 1957. Siden den første rapport fra Center for Disease Control har Veteranadministrationen modtaget en række krav om lægelige ydelser fra tidligere militært personel, som mener, at deres helbred kan have været påvirket af deres deltagelse i våben afprøvningsprogrammerne'. / 'In 1977, 15 years after the last above-ground nuclear weapons test, the Center for Disease Control noted a possible leukemia cluster among a small group of soldiers present at Shot SMOKY, one test of Operation PLUMBBOB, the series of atmospheric nuclear weapons tests conducted in 1957. Since that initial report by the Center for Disease Control, the Veterans Administration has received a number of claims for medical benefits from former military personnel who believe their health may have been affected by their participation in the weapons testing program'.
Se også: Atomic Heritage Foundation ; Australian Nuclear Veterans' Association ; forsøgskaniner ; hibakusha ; National Association of Atomic Veterans, Inc., Houston, Texas ; US Radiation Exposure Compensation Act 1990.

Litteratur

Carl Maag, Stephen Rohrer, Robert Shepanek : Operation Ranger: Shots Able, Baker, Easy, Baker-2, Fox, 25 January-6 February 1951. United States Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Tests, Nuclear Test Personnel Review, Prepared by the Defense Nuclear Agency as Executive Agency for the Department of Defense, 1982. - 186 s.
United States Nuclear Tests, July 1945 through September 1992.
U.S. Department of Energy Nevada Operations Office, DOE/NV--209-REV 15, December 2000.

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