Environmental Health Surveillance
Environmental Health Surveillance
Environmental Health Surveillance
Operation Tomodachi
Operation Tomodachi ("Friend") -- DOD response to the March 11, 2011 Japanese
earthquake, tsunami, and release of radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi
Nuclear Power Station.
DOD is developing a comprehensive Operation Tomodachi radiation
exposure registry of the entire DOD-affiliated population of Service
members, DOD civilian employees, family members of Service members and DOD
employees, and contractors who were on or near the mainland of
Japan from March 12 to May 11, 2011.
News
UN approves radiation advice
Originally published in
World Nuclear News
·
Decmeber 10, 2012
The United Nations is to adopt advice on radiation that clarifies what can be said about its health
effects on individuals and large populations. A preliminary report has also found no observable
health effects from last year's nuclear accident in Fukushima.
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Registry to Provide Japan Response Radiation Info
Originally published in
American Forces Press Service
·
September 5, 2012
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Though no Defense Department personnel or their families were exposed to
radiation causing adverse health conditions following the nuclear accident in Japan last year, the
department has established a registry to provide information to those who served in the stricken country.
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