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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asked the Academies to organize a workshop to discuss challenges and considerations for setting up a registry for long-term health monitoring of populations following nuclear or radiological emergencies in the United States. The 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident is the most recent large-scale nuclear emergency that used epidemiological surveillance tools to collect and assess information on health consequences and the needs of populations affected by the accident.