Nevada Test Site Dose Reconstruction

Project Overview
In 1979, the Department of Energy (DOE) launched a major effort, called the Off-site Radiation Exposure Review Project (ORERP). The principal objective of the ORERP was to collect, organize, and analyze all relevant documents and data pertaining to fallout and resultant exposure to off-site population groups in the vicinity of the Nevada Test Site. Since that time, more than 200,000 documents have been amassed and exposure estimates for discrete fallout events have been derived from empirical measurements and computer-projection models. The total collective external exposure from 1951 through 1975 for all communities was estimated to be 86,000 person-R, with the greatest exposures occurring in Saint George, Utah; Ely, Nevada; and Las Vegas, Nevada.

One of the results of the project was a set of data files relating to fallout transport and population demographics. These dose estimation models, included in CEDR, are the Town Data Base file (TOWNDB), the County Data Base file (CNTYDB) and the Lifestyle Survey Data Base files (LFSDEMOG and LFSFARM).

Document Collection
Coordination and Information Center (CIC) in Las Vegas posted at the DOE Nevada Operations Office Coordination and Information Center (CIC) in Las Vegas - Information page posted at the Human Radiation Experiments web site A Guide to Archival Collections Relating to Radioactive Fallout from Nuclear Weapon Testing posted at the Human Radiation Experiments web site

Dose Estimates

Reports

CEDR Library ID: 930
Beck, H. L. and L. R. Anspaugh. 1991. Development of the county database: Estimates of exposure rates and times of arrival of fallout in the ORERP Phase-II area. DOE/NV-320, UC-702.

CEDR Library ID: 949
Thompson, C. B., R. D. McArthur, and S. W. Hutchinson. 1994. Development of the town database: Estimates of exposure rates and times of fallout arrival near the Nevada test site. DOE/NV-374, UC-702.

CEDR Library ID: 1740
Gesell, T. F. and Voilleque, P. G. Special issue: evaluation of environmental exposures from nuclear testing in Nevada. Health Physics, 59:501-746


Data File Sets
Nevada Test Site Data File Set

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Last modified May 3, 2004