Published October 1989
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Journal article
Transfer of environmental plutonium and americium across the human gut
Creators
- 1. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Lowestoft (UK). Directorate of Fisheries Research
Description
Following the ingestion of winkles obtained from a coastal area near Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant, a group of volunteers provided urine for the next 7 days to be analysed for plutonium and americium. From this, estimates of the intake and gut transfer factors for these isotopes were determined. Preliminary estimates of gut transfer factors from a previous study by the same authors were then re-interpreted and combined with the results from the present study. (UK)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Radiological Protection Bulletin
- Journal Issue
- no.106
- Series
- Radiol. Prot. Bull.
- ISSN
- 0308-4272
- CODEN
- RDPBA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- United Kingdom
- INIS RN
- 21027482
- Subject category
- S63: RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;
- Descriptors DEI
- AMERICIUM 241; COASTAL WATERS; CONTAMINATION; EXCRETION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; MAN; MOLLUSCS; PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 240; RADIOACTIVE EFFLUENTS; RADIONUCLIDE KINETICS; SELLAFIELD REPROCESSING PLANT; URINE
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDE NUCLEI; ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; AMERICIUM ISOTOPES; ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOLOGICAL WASTES; BODY FLUIDS; CLEARANCE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; EVEN-ODD NUCLEI; FUEL REPROCESSING PLANTS; HEAVY NUCLEI; INVERTEBRATES; ISOTOPES; KINETICS; MAMMALS; MATERIALS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; PLUTONIUM ISOTOPES; PRIMATES; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOISOTOPES; SPONTANEOUS FISSION RADIOISOTO; SURFACE WATERS; VERTEBRATES; WASTES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES