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Environmental Monitoring and Personnel Protection in Uranium Processing

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Uranium · Plutonium Transplutonic Elements

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Even before the discovery of radioactivity, uranium (pitchblende) was known to be toxic. Nineteenth century reports describe the use of uranium as a nephrotoxic agent in the study of kidney function. In the early days of the Manhattan Project, studies into both the chemotoxic and radiotoxic effects of uranium were undertaken. The original protection guides for uranium grew out of these studies. This chapter is limited to the problems of environmental and personnel protection. Of equal importance are those problems of criticality control which must be considered in the processing of uranium materials enriched in 235U (American National Standards Institute Committee N16, 1970).

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  1. Department of Pharmacology, University of California, 94122, San Francisco, California, USA

    Harold C. Hodge

  2. Department of Radiation Biology and Biophysics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 14642, Rochester, New York, USA

    John B. Hursh  & J. Newell Stannard  & 

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Scott, L.M. (1973). Environmental Monitoring and Personnel Protection in Uranium Processing. In: Hodge, H.C., Hursh, J.B., Stannard, J.N. (eds) Uranium · Plutonium Transplutonic Elements. Handbuch der experimentellen Pharmakologie / Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, vol 36. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65551-7_6

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