Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age

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301 Index Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., 129 Admiralty (United Kingdom), 33, 44, 46–47, 51, 194–195 Advisory Committee for Biology and Medicine, 16, 19 Advisory Committee on X-Ray and Radium Protection, 18 Aldermaston, 27, 40, 47–51, 198–201, 210 Alexander, Holmes, 119 Algeria, 242 American Medical Association, 18 Arco. See Idaho Falls Arctic Ocean, 1, 130, 177, 252 Argonne, 21, 23 Army (United States), 25, 231 Army Corps of Engineers (United States), 146, 232 Arons, Arnold, 76 Atlantic Ocean, 142–150, 185–186, 194, 203–218, 252 atomic bomb, 6, 14, 27 Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, 15–18, 68, 83 Atomic Energy Authority (United Kingdom), 6, 40, 48, 51, 63–66, 101, 121–124, 127, 137–138, 161, 164, 167, 175–186, 191–218, 224, 237–251, 255. See also Aldermaston; Harwell Atomic Energy Authority Act (United Kingdom), 51, 175 Atomic Energy Commission (United States), 6, 10–12, 14, 16–26, 28–30, 32– 36, 40, 45, 52–63, 66–72, 74–94, 100, 108–110, 120–123, 132–158, 162–163, 172, 181–186, 193–195, 216–217, 221, 224–231, 246, 255–257; Division of Biology and Medicine, 14, 16, 19, 28–29, 54, 77, 141; Division of Research, 17; Health Physics Division, 21; Industrial Hygiene and Safety Branch, 21; Reactor Safety Division, 62, 141 Atomic Energy Research Establishment (United Kingdom). See Harwell atomic power. See nuclear power Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (United Kingdom). See Aldermaston Atoms for Peace, 7, 52, 54, 60–61, 74–81, 94, 98, 119, 132, 135 Baïssas, Henri, 171–172 Baldwin, Hanson W., 26 Baltic Sea, 253 bathyscaphe, 128, 191 Bay of Biscay, 196, 198–201, 210, 243–244 Beadle, George, 19, 108–109 BEAR committees, 39–40, 51–72, 99, 101, 104–116, 127, 136, 138, 148; panel on oceanography and fisheries, 73–98, 134–137, 151 Beers, Norman R., 30 Belgium, 118, 123, 197, 206, 208, 240, 243–244, 250–251, 253 Belter, Walter, 216–217 Bennett, Rawson, 145 Bikini atoll, 53 Biles, Martin, 221–222 302 Index biological concentration, 36–37, 43, 61, 81, 86, 98, 112–114, 129, 133, 139, 141, 153, 159, 168–169, 240 biological effects. See BEAR committees; radiation effects Black Deeps, 44–46 Black Sea, 96, 129, 209, 253 Blumer, Max, 233 Boston Harbor, 146, 148 Bowen, Vaughen, 77, 141 Bravo shot, 53, 82, 83 Brazil, 111, 242 Brereton, Lewis Hyde, 25 Brightsen, R. A., 62 Brink, R. A., 54 Bronk, Detlev, 39–40, 68–72, 99–103, 116, 134, 147–148, 225 Brookhaven, 21, 28, 108 Brooks, Jack, 145 Brown, G. G., 111 Brown, Harrison, 134, 147 Brynielsson report. See Brynielsson, Harry Brynielsson, Harry, 134, 166–175, 198, 222 Bugher, John C., 54 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 55 Bureau of Mines (United States), 24 Burns, R. H., 51, 64–65, 197, 208, 241 calcium, 32 Calder Hall, 116 California, 33, 142, 150, 153 Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 121 Campbell, Charles, 136 Canada, 165, 188, 249 cancer, 3, 13, 15 Candau, Marcolino, 60 canisters. See containers Carling, Ernest Rock, 42 Carritt, Dayton C., 76, 90, 137, 144–151 Casey, Bob, 145 Castle series, 53, 82 Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 231 Central Intelligence Agency (United States), 177 Centre de Recherches et d’Etudes Océanographiques , 168 cerium, 32 cesium, 3, 61, 80, 250 Charnock, Henry, 113–115 chemical reprocessing or processing. See reprocessing Chernobyl, 1, 252 China, People’s Republic, 242 Chipman, W. A., 141 Church, Frank, 224 circulation, 61, 77, 83, 114, 126–129, 133, 164. See also dilution Clare, George W., 50, 209–210, 235–236 Claus, Walter, 28, 34, 77, 140 Coast Guard (United States), 33, 120 coastal disposal, 104–105, 113–114, 142–149, 162, 255 Coastwise Marine Disposal Corporation, 157 Cockcroft, John, 39–40, 44, 61–62, 63–71, 102–107, 123, 162–166, 181, 193, 200 cold war, 4, 8, 117 Cole, W. Sterling, 119–120, 161 Columbia University, 30 Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (France), 123, 160, 167–172, 180–183, 196–205, 241, 248 Committee on Challenges of Modern Society. See North Atlantic Treaty Organization Committee on Environment (United States), 224 communism, 1, 109 Conferences on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, Geneva, 60, 80–81, 90–91, 116, 127, 130–134, 163 Congress (United States), 1, 144–147, 233–234. See also Joint Committee on Atomic Energy containers, 3, 23–24, 27–29, 31, 33–35, 44, 48–50, 93, 96, 120, 128, 133, 150...