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Mortality among workers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1943–2017 by John D. Boice; Sarah S. Cohen; Michael T. Mumma; Ashley P. Golden; Sara C. Howard; David J. Girardi; Elizabeth Dupree Ellis; Michael B. Bellamy; Lawrence T. Dauer; Caleigh Samuels; Keith F. Eckerman; Richard W. Leggett is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Background: During world war ii (wwii), the manhattan engineering district established a secret laboratory in the mountains of northern new mexico. the mission was to design, construct and test the first atomic weapon, nicknamed 'the gadget' that was detonated at the trinity site in alamogordo, nm. after wwii, nuclear weapons research continued, and the laboratory became the los alamos national laboratory (lanl). ## Materials and methods: The mortality experience of 26,328 workers first employed between 1943 and 1980 at lanl was determined through 2017. included were 6157 contract workers employed by the zia company. organ dose estimates for each worker considered all sources of exposure, notably photons, neutrons, tritium, pu and pu. vital status determination included searches within the national death index, social security administration and new mexico state mortality files. standardized mortality ratios (smr) and cox regression models were used in the analyses. ## Results: Most workers (55%) were hired before 1960, 38% had a college degree, 25% were female, 81% white, 13% hispanic and 60% had died. vital status was complete, with only 0.1% lost to follow-up. the mean dose t
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- Author
- John D. Boice; Sarah S. Cohen; Michael T. Mumma; Ashley P. Golden; Sara C. Howard; David J. Girardi; Elizabeth Dupree Ellis; Michael B. Bellamy; Lawrence T. Dauer; Caleigh Samuels; Keith F. Eckerman; Richard W. Leggett
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)