The Office of Atomic Energy for Peace ( OAEP ) , Thailand 's nuclear regulatory agency , was notified Telling when doctors came to suspect Suspicion radiation injury , some seventeen days after the initial exposure .

Investigations found Know failure to ensure secure storage of the radiation source to be the root cause of the accident , which resulted in Causation ten people being hospitalized Institutionalization for radiation injury , three of whom died Death , as well as the potentially significant exposure of 1,872 people .

Due Causation to the often long incubation periods for radiation exposure to induce cancer , the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation ( UNSCEAR ) has , at multiple times , reviewed Scrutiny all the published Publishing research on the incident and found Know that at present , fewer than 100 documented deaths Death are likely to be attributable to increased Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale exposure Causation to radiation .

Determining Deciding the total eventual number of exposure related deaths Death is based on the linear no-threshold model , a contested statistical model , which has also been used Using in estimates of low level radon and air pollution exposure Causation .

Determining Deciding the total eventual number of exposure related deaths Death is based on the linear no-threshold model , a contested statistical model , which has also been used Using in estimates of low level radon and air pollution exposure Causation .

Due Causation to the often long incubation periods for radiation exposure to induce cancer , the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation ( UNSCEAR ) has , at multiple times , reviewed Scrutiny all the published Publishing research on the incident and found Know that at present , fewer than 100 documented deaths Death are likely to be attributable to increased Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale exposure Causation to radiation .

Eleven survey meters and a Geiger counter were shipped Sending to England in early 1944 , along with 1,500 film packets , which were used Using to measure radiation exposure .

Congressional hearings followed , resulting in exposure of shocking conditions in the Lawrence mills and calls for investigation of the `` wool trust . ''

They were characterized Justifying by unprecedented ferocity , wholesale destruction Destroying , mass deportations , and immense loss Earnings_and_losses of life due to combat , starvation , exposure , disease , and massacres .

Others sought Hold hiding Hiding_objects places where they could , and , ill-equipped to overnight in the prevailing terrible cold , died Death of exposure .

The fatalities resulted Causation from a multitude of tragedies Catastrophe , including automobile and maritime accidents Catastrophe , storm-related fires Catastrophe , carbon monoxide poisoning Bodily_harm , over-exertion , and exposure Catastrophe to cold .

This proved Coming_to_believe to be a gruelling test of endurance for the Japanese soldiers who had to struggle Confronting_problem over the rugged mountains ; in the end , the Japanese Army managed to withdraw Escaping its forces from Salamaua and Lae , though with extensive losses Earnings_and_losses from exposure and starvation during the retreat Escaping .