| Author(s): | Knight DR; Tappan DV; Bowman JS; O'Neill HJ; Gordon SM; |
| Address: | "Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory, Groton, CT 06349-5900" |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0378-4274(89)90035-0 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 0378-4274 (Print) 0378-4274 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Nuclear submariners live and work in an atmosphere composed of approximately 80% naturally occurring nitrogen, 19% oxygen (manufactured aboard ship), and a complex mixture of inorganic and organic contaminants. The concentrations of contaminants exist as a balance between the rates of production from human and operational activities and the rate of removal by engineering systems. The biological effects of inorganic gases, particularly carbon dioxide, have been extensively studied. Investigators are now attempting to define the composition and concentration of volatile organic compounds that accumulate during 90-day submergences. Medical studies have not conclusively shown that crewmembers incur adverse health effects from continuous exposures to the sealed atmospheres of nuclear submarines" |
| Keywords: | "Air Pollutants, Occupational/toxicity *Ecological Systems, Closed History, 20th Century Humans Submarine Medicine/*history;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineKnight, D R Tappan, D V Bowman, J S O'Neill, H J Gordon, S M eng Historical Article Netherlands 1989/12/01 Toxicol Lett. 1989 Dec; 49(2-3):243-51. doi: 10.1016/0378-4274(89)90035-0" |
