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PLUTONIUM, BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH

BAIR, W J; THOMPSON, R C

HREX; BIOMEDICAL; HEALTH EFFECTS; HUMANS; JOURNAL; PATIENTS; PLUTONIUM; PLUTONIUM INJECTION EXPERIMENT; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RESEARCH PROGRAM; RETENTION; SYMPOSIUM; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS

Location - DOE/NNSA NUCLEAR TESTING ARCHIVE Address - P.O. Box 98521 City - Las Vegas State - NV Zip - 89193-8521 Phone - (702)794-5106 Fax - (702)862-4240 Email - NTA@NV.DOE.GOV

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1974 Feb 22

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NV0700086

1994 Aug 27

2012 May 14

THE DOCUMENT IS A COPY OF A REPRINT FROM SCIENCE, 22 FEBRUARY 1974, VOL. 183, PP. 715-722. THIS EIGHT-PAGE REVIEW PAPER IS CONCISE AND LUCID. IT REFERS TO 45 OTHER SCIENTIFIC PAPERS. OF THESE 14 COME FROM THE PROCEEDINGS OF A SYMPOSIUM ON "THE BIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS" HELD SEPTEMBER 27-29, 1971, AT HANFORD, WA, AND PUBLISHED AS HEALTH PHYSICS 22, NO. 6, 1972. R. C. THOMPSON AND W. J. BAIR WERE EDITORS OF THIS SPECIAL ISSUE OF HEALTH PHYSICS. THE ARTICLE PRESENTS: CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF BIOMEDICAL INTEREST HISTORY OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ON PLUTONIUM ROUTES TO MAN DISTRIBUTION, RETENTION, AND DOSIMETRY BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS COUNTERMEASURES FOR INTERNALLY DEPOSITED PLUTONIUM EVALUATIONO F HAZARD AND EXPOSURE LIMITS THE FUTURE OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ON PLUTONIUM THE ARTICLE DOES DISCUSS THE 1945 AND 1946 PLUTONIUM INJECTIONS OF SEVERAL SERIOUSLY ILL PATIENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER AND THE STUDY OF A FEW OTHER PATIENTS BY THE "CHICAGO AND BERKELEY GROUPS." IT ALSO MENTIONS AND PROVIDES A REFERENCE FOR THE US TRANSURANIUM REGISTRY, ESTABLISHED IN 1968 "TO MAXIMIZE THE BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL INFORMATION OBTAINABLE FROM EXPOSED WORKERS".