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Etude préliminaire, in situ, de la distribution du plutonium dans différents tissus et organes de Cancer pagurus (Crustacea: Decapoda) et de Pleuronectes platessa (Pisces: Pleuronectidae)

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Plutonium distribution was preliminary investigated in tissues and organs of the crab Cancer pagurus and the plaice Pleuronectes platessa collected inshore near the La Hague fuel reprocessing plant (France). There is an important transfer of plutonium from sea water to the gills and exoskeleton of the crab, these organs representing a large surface adsorption. In the plaice, only the gut strongly accumulates plutonium, indicating contamination by feeding. The edible parts of these two marine species, particularly the flesh, do not constitute, for man, an important source of contamination by environmental plutonium.

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  1. Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Département de Protection, Laboratoire de Radioécologie Marine, Centre de La Hague, Cherbourg, France

    J.-C. Guary, M. Masson & A. Fraizier

  2. Laboratoire International de Radioactivité Marine, Musée Océanographique, Principauté de Monaco

    J.-C. Guary

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Guary, JC., Masson, M. & Fraizier, A. Etude préliminaire, in situ, de la distribution du plutonium dans différents tissus et organes de Cancer pagurus (Crustacea: Decapoda) et de Pleuronectes platessa (Pisces: Pleuronectidae). Marine Biology 36, 13–17 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00388423

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