Evaluation of residual radioactivity in human tissues associated with weapons testing at the nevada test site. Technical report, 1 June 1981-31 March 1989
Residual radioactivity consisting of 239 Pu were measured by radiochemistry and alpha spectrometry in samples of bone and soft tissues from 100 autopsies or surgeries from northern and southwestern Utah and from control areas in Colorado and Pennsylvania. Based upon the isotopic ratio 240 Pu/239 Pu contamination was attributable to atmospheric weapons tests at the Nevada Test Site (NTS). In addition, 110 thyroid tissue samples obtained from tissue blocks made at autopsy of veterans dying at the VA hospital in Salt Lake City in the 1940's and 1950's were measured for 129 I (half life 16 million year) and 127 I (stable) by neutron activation. The results were analyzed by year of death, by periods before and during atmospheric nuclear weapons testing at the NTS and by origin of usual residence. A model was developed to relate thyroid dose from 131 I to the measured 124/127 I ratios, and thyroid dose estimates were made based upon the measured ratios.
- Research Organization:
- Utah Univ., Salt Lake City, UT (United States). Dept. of Pharmacology
- OSTI ID:
- 6878575
- Report Number(s):
- AD-A-259614/6/XAB; CNN: DNA0001-81-C-0138
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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