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pg. 40 (July 4, 1958).
Cesium 137 from atomic test was first detected in humans in 1955 by C.E.
Miller
and
L.D.
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Gamma-ray
Activity
of
Contemporary
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1957).
To compute the unc of cst3? in a 70 Kg man multiply the Cesium/Potassium
ratio by 139 grams of Potassium
(7),
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C.E. Miller, Use of Low-level Gamma-ray spectroscopy for Radiation Emitted
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When persons measured in our counter were also measured at Los Alamos and
at Argonne,
it was
found that the Los Alamos
and Argonne Cesium values
were about 10% and 30% lower than our values, whereas our Potassium values
all
agreed very well.
The reason for this discrepancy is not known, but
it may wel] be that our Cesium values are consistently high.
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