Plutonium stories. [Stories of subjects of Department of Energy human experimentation]

Journal Article · · Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; (United States)

OSTI ID:7016403

Presented here are thumbnail sketches of six people who received injections of plutonium in an Atomic Energy Commission experiment, presumably designed to assess the biological effects of radiation on the human body. The information was drawn from a copyrighted series in the Albuquerque Tribune, a newspaper that counts Los Alamos within its circulation area. Eighteen subjects were involved in this plutonium experiment. They received their injections at the Manhattan Project hospital in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and at prestigious teaching hospitals--the University of California Hospital in San Francisco, Billings Hospital at the University of Chicago, and Strong Memorial Hospital at the University of Rochester.

• OSTI ID: 7016403
• Journal Information: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; (United States), Journal Name: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; (United States) Vol. 50:2; ISSN BASIAP; ISSN 0096-5243
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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