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Studies on persons exposed to plutonium

Conference ·
OSTI ID:5143446
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The results of four studies of persons exposed, or potentially exposed, to plutonium are summarized. The studies are: a five-year update on clinical examinations and health experience of 26 Manhattan District workers heavily exposed at Los Alamos in 1944 to 1945; a 30-year mortality follow-up of 224 white male workers with plutonium body burdens of 10 nCi or more; a review of cancer mortality rates between 1950 and 1969 among Los Alamos County, New Mexico, male residents, all of whom have worked in or have lived within a few kilometers of a major plutonium plant and other nuclear facilities; and a review of cancer incidence rates between 1969 and 1974 in male residents of Los Alamos County. No excess of mortality due to any cause was observed in the 224 male subjects with the highest plutonium exposures at Los Alamos. Clinical examinations of the Manhattan District workers, whose average age in 1976 was 56 years, show them to be active persons with diseases that are not unusual for their ages. The two deaths in this group over the past 30 years have not been due to cancer. Mortality and incidence data indicate no excess of lung cancer in Los Alamos County males.
Research Organization:
Los Alamos Scientific Lab., N.Mex. (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-36
OSTI ID:
5143446
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-78-208; CONF-780306-2
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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560171* -- Radiation Effects-- Nuclide Kinetics & Toxicology-- Man-- (-1987)
63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.
ACTINIDES
BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS
BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS
BODY BURDEN
DELAYED RADIATION EFFECTS
DISEASES
DOSES
ELEMENTS
EPIDEMIOLOGY
HAZARDS
HEALTH HAZARDS
HUMAN POPULATIONS
INTERNAL IRRADIATION
IRRADIATION
METALS
MORTALITY
NEOPLASMS
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
PERSONNEL
PLUTONIUM
POPULATIONS
RADIATION DOSES
RADIATION EFFECTS
TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS