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Title: Plutonium in human urine: Normal levels in the US public. 1991 Annual report, Volume 2

Abstract

A neutron induced fission track method was successfully developed for assaying {sup 239}Pu in human urine with a detection limit below 20 aCi/sample. The technique involves the co-precipitation of {sup 239}Pu with rhodizonic acid, separation of {sup 239}Pu from potentially interfering natural uranium and other inorganic materials by ion-exchange techniques, collection of the sample onto lexan detectors, irradiation of sample in MIT reactor at a fluence of 1.1 x 10{sup 17} n/cm{sup 2}, etching of the lexan slide and counting the track either manually or by some automated counting system.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Utah Univ., Salt Lake City, UT (United States). Environmental Radiation and Toxicology Lab.
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
451237
Report Number(s):
DOE/NV/10865-T1-Vol.2
ON: DE97003779; TRN: 97:006575
DOE Contract Number:
FC08-89NV10865
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: [1997]
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
56 BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, APPLIED STUDIES; PLUTONIUM 239; ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; FISSION TRACKS; URINE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; EVALUATION

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Wrenn, M.E., Singh, N.P., and Xue, Ying-Hua. Plutonium in human urine: Normal levels in the US public. 1991 Annual report, Volume 2. United States: N. p., 1997. Web. doi:10.2172/451237.
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Wrenn, M.E., Singh, N.P., & Xue, Ying-Hua. Plutonium in human urine: Normal levels in the US public. 1991 Annual report, Volume 2. United States. doi:10.2172/451237.
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Wrenn, M.E., Singh, N.P., and Xue, Ying-Hua. Sat . "Plutonium in human urine: Normal levels in the US public. 1991 Annual report, Volume 2". United States. doi:10.2172/451237. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/451237.
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title = {Plutonium in human urine: Normal levels in the US public. 1991 Annual report, Volume 2},
author = {Wrenn, M.E. and Singh, N.P. and Xue, Ying-Hua},
abstractNote = {A neutron induced fission track method was successfully developed for assaying {sup 239}Pu in human urine with a detection limit below 20 aCi/sample. The technique involves the co-precipitation of {sup 239}Pu with rhodizonic acid, separation of {sup 239}Pu from potentially interfering natural uranium and other inorganic materials by ion-exchange techniques, collection of the sample onto lexan detectors, irradiation of sample in MIT reactor at a fluence of 1.1 x 10{sup 17} n/cm{sup 2}, etching of the lexan slide and counting the track either manually or by some automated counting system.},
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year = {Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1997},
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