Plutonium in autopsy tissue.

Campbell, E.E.; Milligan, M.F.; Moss, W.D.; Schulte, H.F.; McInroy, J.F.

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“…According to Norwood et al (No75) and McInroy (McI76) in persons who were occupationally exposed, more than 75% of the plutonium body burden was found in tissues analyzed in our work. We also assumed the plutonium content of ribs to represent the average concen- (Camp73) have, however, earlier published lower plutonium results than those given in Table 1.…”

Section: Comparison With Plutonium Levels In Other Countriesmentioning

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Distribution of Fallout Plutonium in Southern Finns

Mussalo¹,

Jaakkola²,

Jk³

1980

Health Physics

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The concentrations of fallout plutonium were determined in samples of liver, lung, bone and tracheobronchial lymph nodes collected at autopsy from 50 residents of the Helsinki area. The average 239*240Pu concentration of southern Finns was 0.026 2 0.003, 0.041 20.005, 0.32?0.03 and 0.37k0.04 pCi/kg wet wt. for lung, bone, liver and lymph nodes, respectively. Assuming that all plutonium in the body is located in these tissues the average body burden of southern Finns in 1976 was about 1 pCi, of which 53% was found in liver, 43% in skeleton, 3% in lung and 1% in tracheobronchial lymph nodes. The skeleton value is based on plutonium concentration in ribs. The dependence of plutonium content on the age at death, particularly noticeable in liver samples, was due to variations in the total plutonium intake via inhalation during the person's lifetime. The plutonium found in southern Finns causes by LY radiation a dose of 0.03 mrad/yr for liver, 0.004 mrad/yr for skeleton and 0.002 mrad/yr for lungs. The plutonium content was found to be considerably lower in cirrhotic and fatty degenerated liver than in normal liver.

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Section: Comparison With Plutonium Levels In Other Countriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Distribution of Fallout Plutonium in Southern Finns

Mussalo¹,

Jaakkola²,

Jk³

1980

Health Physics

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“…Recently the sensitivity of chest counting of low energy X-rays has been improved by the use of the phoswich pulse shaping method and also by use of the xenon proportional counter (TAYLOR, 1969;DEAN et al, 1970;SWINTH and GRIFFIN, 1970;TOMITANI and TANAKA, 1970). Recently the sensitivity of chest counting of low energy X-rays has been improved by the use of the phoswich pulse shaping method and also by use of the xenon proportional counter (TAYLOR, 1969;DEAN et al, 1970;SWINTH and GRIFFIN, 1970;TOMITANI and TANAKA, 1970).…”

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Plutonium

Schulte¹

1975

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In evaluating the occupational environment to assess its hazard potential from the presence of plutonium, measurements must be made on the physical environment and on the worker. The most significant of the former are measurements of plutonium air concentration supplemented by particle size and duration of exposure estimates. These can only be very approximately estimated because of various compromises which must be made and are most useful as indicators of the effectiveness of the containment. Measurements on the worker such as urine assay and chest counting for plutonium also involve compromises and their interpretation involves assumptions based on limited and variable data. Information from analysis of tissue samples shows only a rough correlation with calculations based on urine assay data. Nevertheless, assemblage of all pertinent information from these measurements does permit real control of potential health hazards from work with plutonium.

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Pre-concentration and separation of thorium, uranium, plutonium and americium in human soft tissues by extraction chromatography

Moody

Glover

Stuit

et al. 1998

J Radioanal Nucl Chem

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An extraction chromatographic method is described for the pre-concentration and separation of thorium, uranium, plutonium and americium in human soft tissues. Tissues such as lung and liver are oven dried at 120 ~ ashed at 450 ~ and the ashed sample is alternately wet (HNO3/H202) and dry ashed, and then dissolved in 8M HC1. Because of the complex matrix and large sample samples (up to 1500 g), the actinides were preconcentrated from the tissue solution using the TRU TM resin (EIChroM) prior to elemental separation by extraction chromatography and determination of americium, plutonium, uranium and thorium by alpha spectrometry. The actinides were eluted from the preconcentration column and each actinide was individually eluted on TEVA TM and TRU TM resin columns in a tandem configuration. Actinide activities were then determined by alpha spectrometry after electrodeposition from a sulfate medium. The method was validated by analyzing human tissue samples previously analyzed for americium, plutonium, uranium and thorium in the United States Transuranium and Uranium Registries (USTUR). Two

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Plutonium in autopsy tissue.

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Distribution of Fallout Plutonium in Southern Finns

Distribution of Fallout Plutonium in Southern Finns

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Pre-concentration and separation of thorium, uranium, plutonium and americium in human soft tissues by extraction chromatography

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