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Science 5 February 1965:
Vol. 147. no. 3658, pp. 620 - 621
DOI: 10.1126/science.147.3658.620
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Radioactivity Measured in Alaskan Natives, 1962-1964

Harvey E. Palmer 1, Wayne C. Hanson 1, Bobby I. Griffin 1, and Leslie A. Braby 1

1 Hanford Laboratories, General Electric Company, Richland, Washington

Measurements of the cesium-137 content of northern Alaskan natives during the summer of 1964 indicated that the adults of the interior village of Anaktuvuk Pass had the highest average body burden: 1280 nanocuries of cesium-137. This is an increase of 200 percent over the average body burden found in the summer of 1962 and 100 percent over that found in the summer of 1963. The greatest burden found in a native in 1964 was 2.4 microcuries of cesium-137, but the highest burden of all, 3.0 microcuries, was measured in a non-native living mainly on caribou meat. Sodium-22 was found in samples of urine from Eskimos, and subsequently in the Eskimos themselves and in reindeer and caribou meat.


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Cesium-137 in Alaskans.
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