Organization
Brookhaven National Laboratory
U.S. laboratory on Long Island that ran the medical program for the exposed Marshallese from 1956 to 1998.
Connections 2
contracts from
- U.S. Department of Energy Marshall Islands medical program Primary record 1
involved in
- Project 4.1 took over the medical program in 1956 Primary record 1
Proof 1 source
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Brookhaven Statement on Marshall Islands, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 22 Aug 2009.
Primary record
Twenty years later, when the Department of Energy (DOE) came into being in 1977, Brookhaven was asked to maintain the program under contract to DOE.
In 1956, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) turned to Brookhaven National Laboratory to continue a program of medical evaluation and care of Marshall Islanders accidentally exposed to radioactive fallout following a U.S. nuclear weapons test at Bikini atoll on March 1, 1954.
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