The inhalation of radioactive materials as related to hand contamination [electronic resource]
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| Format: | Government Document Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. :
United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information ; distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy,
1953.
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| Abstract: | Tests performed to determine the hazard associated with the inhalation of radioactive materials as the result of smoking with contaminated hands indicate that for dry uranium compounds adhering to the palmar surfaces of the hands, approximately 1.0% of the material may be transferred to a cigarette, and that of this approximately 0.2% may appear in the smoke which is inhaled. Most of the contamination originally placed in a cigarette was found in the ash, and only 11% of the material was not recovered following burning; approximately half of this loss may be attributed to normal losses inherent in the analytical process, the recovery efficiency for which was found by supplementary experiments to be 95% |
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| Item Description: | Published through the Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information. 09/15/1953. "k--1071" "DE95013608" Bailey, J.C.; Rohr, R.C. |
| Physical Description: | 18 p. : digital, PDF file. |