dEE ee
nbd be pianBi dows piece
saci: shit ita is
In fact, Spooner
a
vesiculosus,
DI
sessiie
the yttrtum-90 in the y
ee eerily ati of iety accumulated
a
Intern.
Energy,
found
Bowen and Rubinson (1951)m the
med-
lanthanum-140 fro
ates cant selected
uptake might be
gested that lanthanum
‘ * hey sug
Later invest
Omen property of yeast growth.
huvever, showed that this apparent seen
ations.
surface adsorption phe
Mvity was in reality a
Since a
ication).
(lowen, personal commun
mang
the rare earth elementeoluxical requirement for
v
itively, the se ec
not been demonstrated pos
bably h
pro
is
ve
es
abo
mpl
exa
the
ity described in
al surfaces of tay
to differences in the extern
is et al. (1958)
anisms. Chipman (1958) and Dav lation of the
umu
wa gested that the extent of acc anisms is at
re earth nuclides by aquatic orge
area of the
leant partly related to the surfac
ganisa.
SUMMARY
Many radioactive lanthanides are made avail
r,
hle in the production of nuclear energy; howeve
onment
Studies of their distribution in the envir
conbeen
have
anisms
living
uptake by
eir
; fued primarily to celi4_pridt, lanthanum-140, pro4
fBethium-147, and yttrium-90, 91.
Ecological factors governing the distribution
E
‘Sf the rare earths are physico-chemical and bio-
The first are concerned with the proper-
‘Rogical.
Bies of the nuclide and the nature of the environ~
and the second with the selectivity and re~
jpent,
Precipitation
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This work was conducted under contract number
@T(45-1)1385 between the U. S. Atomic Energy Com-
WP ission and the University of Washington.
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