Medical Response to Effects of Ionizing Radiation

W.A.CROSBIE Authority Chief Medical Officer, UKAEA and J.H.GITTUS Director, Communication & Information, UKAEA.

• Preface; The medical implications of nuclear power plant accidents; Setting the scenario—potential hazards of the nuclear fuel cycle; The medical management of radiation casualties; Medical management of the patient immunosuppressed by ionising Radiation; The Goiânia accident; Current radiation risk estimates and implications for the health consequences of Windscale, TMI and Chernobyl accidents; The role of biological dosimetry in a radiological accident in the UK; Some priorities in experimental radiobiology; Arrangements for dealing with emergencies at civil nuclear installations; The National Response Plan and Radioactive Incident Monitoring Network(RIMNET); The role of MAFF following a nuclear accident; Medical response to effects of ionising radiation: resources for coping with an event, the role of the Community Physician; Local emergency arrangements for radiation accidents; Monitoring and assessment of radiation exposure from routine radioactive discharges, and its relevance to the question of disease clusters; Studies of leukaemia incidence in Scotland; The relevance of population mixing to the aetiology of childhood leukaemia; The role of ionising radiation in the aetiology of the leukaemias; A method of detecting spatial clustering of disease; Prediction of the effect of small doses: inconsistencies in the epidemiological evidence.