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Science 6 February 1959:
Vol. 129. no. 3345, pp. 327 - 328
DOI: 10.1126/science.129.3345.327
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Maximum Permissible Body Burden of Strontium-90

R. BJÖRNERSTEDT 1 and A. ENGSTRÖM 2

1 Research Institute of National Defense, Stockholm, Sweden
2 Department of Medical Physics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

The permissible body burden of Sr99 is discussed with respect to the mode of intake. It appears that the maximum permissible load may depend on the type of exposure, acute or chronic, the acute being the more serious.


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