Gather information about area of radiation exposure and assess data
Identify pathways of internal and external exposure
Determine methods of calculation to estimate screening doses and exposures
Develop methods to assess and estimate environmental doses
Determine risk of environmental exposures through selected calculation method
Document reconstruction procedures and results
Overview
CDC first became involved in health studies at Savannah River Site in 1992 following a memorandum of understanding between the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Energy.
Project Activities
The Savannah River Site, located near Barnwell, South Carolina, was constructed during the early 1950s to produce the basic materials used in the fabrication of nuclear weapons, primarily tritium and plutonium-239. Researchers completed the first phase of the project — the comprehensive data assessment and retrieval phase— in 1995. This phase involved an exhaustive records search of more than 50,000 boxes of records. The next phase was completed in 2001. In this phase the researchers estimated the quantities of radioactive and chemical material released from the Savannah River Site between 1954 and 1992.
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