This whole body donation case (USTUR Registrant) involved two suspected plutonium oxide (Pu) inhalation intakes, each indicated by a measurable Pu alpha activity in a single urine sample, followed about 1.5 y later by a puncture wound to the thumb while working in a Pu glovebox. The study is concerned with modeling simultaneously the biokinetics of deposition and retention in the respiratory tract and at the wound site; and the biokinetics of Pu subsequently transferred to other body organs, until the donor's death. Urine samples taken after the wound incident had readily measurable Pu alpha activity over the next 14 y, before dropping below the minimum detectable excretion rate (
Revised: September 19, 2008 |
Published: January 28, 2008
Citation
James A.C., L.B. Sasser, D.B. Stuit, T.G. Wood, S.E. Glover, T.P. Lynch, and G.E. Dagle. 2008.USTUR Whole Body Case 0262: 33-y Follow-up of PuO2 In A Skin Wound and Associated Axillary Node.Radiation Protection Dosimetry 127, no. 1-4:114-119.PNNL-SA-61414.doi:10.1093/rpd/ncm467