Radiological health data monthly report, Volume IV, Number 9

Technical Report · Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1963

OSTI ID:5633458

Data are presented on fission product radioactivity in samples of airborne particulates and precipitation collected throughout the US and Canada during May 1963 and at Pan American sampling stations during November 1962; radionuclides in institutional diet samples collected throughout the US during January, February, and March 1963; the content of Sr/sup 89/, Sr/sup 90/, Cs/sup 137/, I/sup 131/, and Ba/sup 140/ is parteurized milk samples collected throughout the US during May 1963 and in Canada during April 1963; the radioactivity in raw surface waters sampled at 126 stations throughout the US during 1963; and in vivo measurements of I/sup 131/ in children's thyroids. Results are included from a survey of radioactivity in the environs of Union Carbide Nuclear Co., Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Paducah, Kentucky, during 1962. Data are summarized for 3 low-yield underground nuclear detonations announced during August 1963. Separate abstracts were prepared for 3 sections of this report.

• Research Organization: Public Health Service, Washington, DC (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5633458
• Report Number(s): RHD-Vol.IV-No.9
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ALKALI METAL ISOTOPES
ALKALINE EARTH ISOTOPES
ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATIONS
BARIUM 140
BARIUM ISOTOPES
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BIOLOGICAL ACCUMULATION
BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS
BODY
BODY FLUIDS
CESIUM 137
CESIUM ISOTOPES
DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION
ENDOCRINE GLANDS
ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE PATHWAY
EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI
EVEN-ODD NUCLEI
EXPLOSIONS
FOOD
GLANDS
INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI
IODINE 131
IODINE ISOTOPES
ISOTOPES
MATERIALS
MILK
NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS
NUCLEI
ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
ORGANS
RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION
RADIOISOTOPES
STRONTIUM 89
STRONTIUM 90
STRONTIUM ISOTOPES
SURFACE WATERS
THYROID
YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES