On August 15, 2024, Dr. Maia Avtandilashvili completed a years-long project to standardize all copies of exposure and bioassay records from its all of its Registrants. The USTUR houses tens of thousands of paper copies of these records, which were obtained from national laboratories and other nuclear worksites, after obtaining permission from our Registrants. Population of a database designed to both digitize and standardize this important information was initiated by Stacey McComish with entry of data from Case 0202 – a nuclear defense worker who was involved in a plutonium fire – in December 2008. Starting on her first day at the USTUR in January 2012, Dr. Avtandilashvili took the lead role in database development and population, and began to enter health physics data in earnest. A total of 191,961 records from 395 Registrants has been entered into the database.
The next step is to identify all cases with incomplete health physics records and request missing data from the worksites. So far, fifty USTUR cases with missing records, including four special study Registrants, have been identified. Forty-three of these cases are from the Hanford site. The USTUR will obtain points of contact for each site, and request missing records.