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H E PALMER
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RADIOACTIVITY MEASURED IN ALASKAN NATIVES, 1962-1964.
Measurements of the cesium-137 content of northern Alaskan natives during the summer of 1964 indicated that the adults of the interior village of Anaktuvuk Pass had the highest average body burden: 1280 nanocuries of cesium-137. This is an increase of 200 percent over the average body burden found in the summer of 1962 and 100 percent over that found in the summer of 1963. The greatest burden found in a native in 1964 was 2.4 microcuries of cesium-137, but the highest burden of all, 3.0 microcuries, was measured in a non-native living mainly on caribou meat. Sodium-22 was found in samples of urine from Eskimos, and subsequently in the Eskimos themselves and in reindeer and caribou meat.
ROUGH ESTIMATES OF BETA DOSES TO THE SKIN.
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RADIOACTIVITY MEASUREMENTS IN ALASKAN ESKIMOS IN 1963.
During the summer of 1963 people at five villages above the Arctic Circle in Alaska were measured for accumulated radioactivity with a portable whole-body counter. Adults of the interior village of Anaktuvuk Pass showed the highest average body burden, 628 nanocuries of cesium-137. This is an increase of nearly 50 percent over the summer before. The maximum burden foundwas 1.24 microcuries.
RADIOACTIVITY IN NORTHERN ALASKAN ESKIMOS AND THEIR FOODS, SUMMER 1962.
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THE DISTRIBUTION AND DEPOSITION OF RADON DAUGHTERS ATTACHED TO DUST PARTICLES IN THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM OF HUMANS EXPOSED TO URANIUM MINE ATMOSPHERES.
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CESIUM-137 IN ALASKAN ESKIMOS.
During the summer of 1962, levels of radioactivity in over 700 people at four villages above the Arctic Circle in Alaska were measured with a transportable whole-body counter. The averages for body burden of cesium-137 were much higher than the average for people in the rest of the United States. The people of the interior village of Anaktuvuk Pass had the highest average burden of cesium-137, which was 421 nanocuries; the maximum burden was 790 nanocuries.
CESIUM-134 IN ALASKAN ESKIMOS AND IN FALLOUT.
Whole-body counts of Alaskan Eskimos during the summer of 1962 showed the presence of cesium-134 as well as cesium-137. Cesium-134 was also found in reindeer and caribou meat; this finding was confirmed through coincidence counting. There was generally about 1 percent as much cesium-134 as there was cesium-137. Cesium-134 was also found on air filters collected at Richland, Washington. The appearance of cesium-134 seems to be world-wide and continuing.
DETERMINATION OF THE AVERAGE CS-137 BODY BURDEN IN A POPULATION BY URINALYSIS. TID-7696.
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Detection of plutonium in vivo by whole-body counting.
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