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Science 15 May 1964:
Vol. 144. no. 3620, pp. 859 - 860
DOI: 10.1126/science.144.3620.859
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Radioactivity Measurements in Alaskan Eskimos in 1963

Harvey E. Palmer 1, Wayne C. Hanson 1, Bobby I. Griffin 1, and Dale M. Fleming 1

1 Hanford Laboratories, General Electric Company, Richland, Washington

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.


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