NUCLEAR RISK MANAGEMENT FOR NATIVE COMMUNITIES

NRMNC的组织目的是加强社区能力，以管理受严重核污染影响的美洲土著社区的核污染对环境健康的影响。 NRMNC寻求资金，以支持在三个地点继续开展工作。 这些包括（1）塞阔亚燃料核设施周围的切罗基社区，扩大了我们的俄克拉荷马州NRMNC的工作;（2）东南部的南部派尤特社区。犹他州，受到内华达州试验场的核沉降物的严重影响;扩大NRMNC在大盆地社区和（3）受到世界上最大的露天铀矿（现已关闭）严重影响的新墨西哥州拉古纳普韦布洛周围村庄的工作;加强他们的校本课程战略。 未来四年的主要目标包括：（1）建立和加强长期的社区环境卫生基础设施，包括资助和培训社区工作人员和咨询委员会。 这是项目在内华达州和俄克拉荷马州的成功活动。 我们将扩大NV NRMNC，为S.E.的新工作人员和社区顾问提供资金和培训讲习班。犹他州，并增加人员配置和扩大社区顾问在俄克拉荷马州。 我们将协助这些社区在环境卫生规划过程中发展越来越强的控制感和主人翁感，以便这些基础设施成为长期的社区机构。(2)通过为社区工作人员、代表和保健提供者举办讲习班，继续在每个地点进行能力建设;举办社区会议，并编写关于环境卫生和核风险的教育材料。 NRMNC项目小组将在每个地点举办两至三次为期两天的讲习班，强调辐射基础知识和健康影响、照射途径、放射性核素影响、健康风险方法、特定地点的污染影响、污染的社区背景等，利用与土著社区成员一起参与的教学方法。 克拉克和现场工作人员将继续创造急需的社区为基础的教育材料和出版物，以帮助社区理解这些问题的复杂性。 拉古纳普韦布洛将继续建立一个关于铀矿开采的示范学校课程（3）在每个特定社区范围内开展以社区为基础的研究，对核污染对健康的影响进行技术研究：并在每个地点建立和加强当地知识方案。 在S.E.犹他州，NRMNC将对S的暴露进行技术研究。派尤特社区成员在20世纪50年代，汇编数据从出版的来源和模拟一些剂量从原住民的生存活动。社区研究人员将与这些地区的土著老人进行社区访谈，以确定土著接触情景、健康问题和有关污染影响的其他关键当地知识。 在俄克拉荷马州，技术研究人员将监测和解释关于退役方案和影响的文件;社区研究将侧重于对社区环境健康问题和核场地管理问题进行更广泛的调查，并探讨核设施附近的社区健康调查。 所有地点都将为其社区的长期环境卫生干预措施进行战略规划。 这将在社区咨询委员会会议期间进行，并产生基于社区的灾害管理计划。(5)对其他土著社区和环境卫生科学家进行外联。 将实施全面评价程序。

NRMNC was organized to strengthen community-based capabilities in managing the environmental health impacts of nuclear contamination in Native American communities affected by serious nuclear contamination. NRMNC seeks funding to support continued work at three sites. These include (1) Cherokee communities surrounding the Sequoyah Fuels nuclear facility, broadening the work of our Oklahoma NRMNC (2) Southern Paiute communities in S.E. Utah, severely affected by nuclear fallout from the Nevada Test Site; expanding the work of the NRMNC in the Great Basin communities and (3) villages surrounding Laguna Pueblo, NM, severely affected by the world's largest open pit uranium mine (now closed); strengthening their school-based curriculum strategies. The major goals for the next four years include: (1) Building and strengthening a long-term community-based environmental health infrastructure including funding and training community-based staff and advisory committees. This has been a successful activity of the Project in both Nevada and Oklahoma. We will expand the NV NRMNC to provide funds and training workshops for new staff and community advisors in S.E. Utah and add to staffing and expand community advisors in Oklahoma. We will assist these communities in developing an increasing sense of control and ownership over the environmental health planning process so that these infrastructures become long-term community-based institutions. (2) Continuing capacity-building at each site by conducting workshops for community staff, representatives and health care providers; conducting community, meetings, and developing educational materials on environmental health and nuclear risks. NRMNC project teams will present two-three two day workshops at each site, stressing radiation basics and health effects, exposure pathways, radionuclide impacts, health risk methodologies, site-specific contamination impacts, community context of contamination, etc. utilizing participatory teaching approaches with Native community members. Clark and site staff will continue to create much-needed community-based educational materials and publications to assist communities in comprehending the complexity of these issues. Laguna Pueblo will continue building a model school curriculum on uranium mining (3) Conducting community-based research with technical research on health impacts of nuclear contamination within each specific community context: and building and strengthening local knowledge programs at each site. In S.E. Utah, NRMNC will conduct technical research on exposures to S. Paiute community members during the 1950's, compiling data from published sources and modeling some doses from Native subsistence activities. Community researchers will conduct community interviews with Native elders in these areas to determine Native exposure scenarios, health concerns and other key local knowledge about contamination impacts. In Oklahoma, technical researchers will monitor and interpret documents produced on decommissioning options and impacts; community research will focus on a broader survey of community environmental health concerns and nuclear site management issues as well as the exploration of a community health survey near the nuclear facility (4) Facilitating community-based strategic-planning on the ongoing environmental health management of nuclear risks. All sites will be conducting strategic-planning for long-term environmental health interventions for their communities. This will take place during community advisory committee meetings and result in community-based hazards management plans. (5) Conducting outreach both to other Native communities and environmental health scientists. Comprehensive evaluation procedures will be implemented.