procedures.
(H.H.D.)
ADSORPTION;
Descriptors:
AGE;
ATMOSPHERE;
BIBLIOGRAPHY;
BODY;
CATTLE;
CONTAMINATION;
DECONTAMINATION;
ENVIRONMENT;
EXCRETION;
FALLOUT;
FOOD;
HIROSHIMA;
INGESTION;
IODINE 131;
LIQUIDS;
MAN;
MARSHALL ISLANDS;
MEDICINE;
MILK;
MONITORING;
NAGASAKI;
NUCLEAR
EXPLOSIONS;
POPULATIONS;
QUANTITY RATIO;
RADIATION DOSES;
IATION
EFFECTS;
RADIATION PROTECTION;
REVIEW;
SAFETY;
STANDARDS;
STOMACH;
STRONTIUM 90;
TOXICITY;
URINE
Subject Codes (NSA): HEALTH AND SAFETY
10/5/145
215753
(Item 145 from file:
NSA-17-005699
METABOLISM OF FISSION PRODUCTS
Cohn,
109)
IN MAN:
MARSHALLESE
EXPERIENCE
S.H.
Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, N.Y.
Publication Date: 1962
27 p.
Primary Report No.: BNL-6503
Journal Announcement: NSA17
Document Type: Report
Language: English
Contract No.:
AT (30-2) -GEN-16
The medical study of the Marshallese accidentally exposed to local
fallout in 1954 is unique in that, along with the study of the Japanese
fishermen,
it provides the only data existing on the metabolism of mixed
fission products in a human population. Early diagnosis of the internal
radioactive contamination was made by radiochemical analysis of the excreta
of the exposed people and by radiochemical analysis of the tissues and
excreta of animals simultaneously exposed. Initially, Sr/sup 89/, Ba/sup
140/, I/sup 131/ and its shorter-lived daughters and a number of rare-earth
elements contributed the major portion of the internal radiation dose.
After a year, the principal radioisotopes were Sr/sup 90/, Cs/sup 137/, and
Zn/sup 65/. Subsequently these radionuclides and, more recently, Co/sup 60/
as well, have been measured periodically. Since 1958 the gamma spectra of a
number of Marshallese have been obtained with a whole-body counter. The
findings of these studies for the past eight years are discussed.
The
results of an early attempt to alter the rate of removal of the mixed
fission products in the Marshallese with Ca-disodium EDTA are presented.
The metabolism of the radionuclides and their relationship to levels
present in the environment is also discussed. (auth)
Descriptors:
ACCIDENTS ANIMALS BODY CONTAMINATION DECONTAMINATION
DIAGNOSIS EDTA ENVIRONMENT FALLOUT FISSION PRODUCTS GAMMA SPECTROMETERS MAN
MARSHALL ISLANDS METABOLISM POPULATIONS RADIATION DETECTORS RADIOCHEMISTRY
TISSUES URINE; BARIUM 140 CESIUM 137 COBALT 60 ENVIRONMENT FALLOUT FISSION
PRODUCTS IODINE 131 MAN MARSHALL ISLANDS MEASURED VALUES METABOLISM
POPULATIONS QUANTITY RATIO STRONTIUM 89 STRONTIUM 90 ZINC 65
Subject Codes (NSA): BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
10/5/146
215150
(Item 146 from file: 109)
™
NSA-17-005096
Thurber, D.L.
Columbia Univ.,
Palisades,
N.Y.
Journal of Geophysical Research
(U.S.)
Publication Date: Oct. 1962
4518-20 p.
Coden: JGREA
Note: 0022-1406
Journal Announcement: NSA17
Document Type: Journal Article
Language: English
Recently,
several workers,
v 67.
9003625
ANOMALOUS USsup 234$ US$sup 238$ IN NATURE
reported radioactive disequilibrium in nature
between U/sup 234/ and its parent U/sup 238/. This anomaly may be used as a
geochemical tool in the study of the behavior of U in rocks, soils, and
natural waters. Samples of unraninite and Mississippian limestone in which
U/sup 234/ was expected to be in equilibrium with U/sup 238/ were analyzed.
Preliminary values for the oceans are given.
and Lake Bonneville were analyzed. (W.D.M.)
Several samples from Eniwetok