Retention half times in the skeleton of plutonium and 90Sr from above-ground nuclear tests: A retrospective study of the Swiss population

Chemosphere

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 519-524

  Froidevaux, Pascal ^a   Bochud, François ^a   Haldimann, Max ^b  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b FEDERAL OFFICE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

90Sr metabolism; Bone; Nuclear bomb test fallout; Plutonium; Plutonium metabolism; Strontium 90

Indexed keywords

BOMBS (ORDNANCE); BONE; FALLOUT; MAMMALS; METABOLISM; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

BIOKINETIC MODELS; ENVIRONMENTAL COMPARTMENT; GENERAL POPULATION; HOMEOSTATIC CONTROL; NUCLEAR BOMB TESTS; PRECISE DETERMINATIONS; STRONTIUM-90; TRABECULAR BONES;

PLUTONIUM;

PLUTONIUM; STRONTIUM 90;

BONE; FALLOUT; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING; PLUTONIUM; RADIONUCLIDE; SKELETON; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; HALF LIFE TIME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; POPULATION RESEARCH; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIOMETRY; RETENTION HALF TIME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SWITZERLAND; TOXICITY TESTING; TRABECULAR BONE; VERTEBRA;

SWITZERLAND;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 77953812406     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2010.04.049     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Bondarenko O.A., Aryasov B.B., Tsygankov N.Y. Evaluation of the plutonium content in the human body due to global and Chernobyl fallout. J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. 2000, 243:473-478.
2. Bunzl K., Kracke W. Fallout Pu-239-240 and Pu-238 in human-tissues from the federal-republic of Germany. Health Phys. 1983, 44:441-449.
3. Christensen G.C., Alstad J., Kvale E., Pappas A.C. Strontium-90 in human bone in Norway 1956-1972. Health Phys. 1975, 28:677-684.
4. Fisenne I.M., Cohen N., Neton J.W., Perry P. Fallout plutonium in human-tissues from New York-city. Radiat. Res. 1980, 83:162-168.
5. Fletcher W., Loutit J.F., Papworth D.G. Interpretation of levels of strontium-90 in human bone. Br. Med. J. 1966, 2:1225-1230.
6. Friedli C., Geering J.J., Lerch P. Some aspects of the behavior of Sr-90 in the environment. Radiochim. Acta 1991, 52-3:237-240.
7. Froidevaux, P., Steinmann, P., Barraud, F., Dlala, J., Bochud, F. 2005. Mesure de 90Sr dans les vertèbres et les dents de lait. In: Radioactivité de l'Environnement et Doses de Rayonnements en Suisse. Federal Office of Public Health ed, Bern.
8. Froidevaux P., Geering J.J., Valley J.F. Sr-90 in deciduous teeth from 1950 to 2002: the Swiss experience. Sci. Total Environ. 2006, 367:596-605.
9. Froidevaux P., Haldimann M. Plutonium from above-ground nuclear tests in milk teeth: investigation of placental transfer in children born between 1951 and 1995 in Switzerland. Environ. Health Perspect. 2008, 116:1731-1734.
10. Gold B., Kathren R.L. Causes of death in a cohort of 260 plutonium workers. Health Phys. 1998, 75:236-240.
11. ICRP (International Commission on Radiological Protection), 1986. The Metabolism of Plutonium and Related Elements. In: ICRP Publication 48. Pergamon Press, Oxford.
12. ICRP (International Commission on Radiological Protection), 1989. Age-dependant Doses to Members of the Public from Intake of Radionuclides: Part 1. In: ICRP Publication 56. Pergamon Press, Oxford.
13. ICRP (International Commission on Radiological Protection), 1995. Basic Anatomical and Physiologycal Data for use in Radiological Protection: The Skeleton. In: ICRP publication 70. Pergamon Press, Oxford.
14. Kathren R.L. The United States transuranium and uranium registries - 1968-1993. Radiat. Prot. Dosimetry 1995, 60:349-354.
15. Kathren R.L. A review of contributions of human tissue studies to biokinetics, bioeffects and dosimetry of plutonium in man. Radiat. Prot. Dosimetry 2004, 109:399-407.
16. Kelley J.M., Bond L.A., Beasley T.M. Global distribution of Pu isotopes and Np-237. Sci. Total Environ. 1999, 238:483-500.
17. Leggett R.W. A retention-excretion model for Americium in humans. Health Phys. 1992, 62:288-310.
18. Lloyd R.D., Taylor G.N., Miller S.C., Bruenger F.W., Jee W.S. Review of Pu-239 and Ra-226 effects in beagles. Health Phys. 2001, 81:691-697.
19. McInroy J.F., Campbell E.E., Moss W.D., Tietjen G.L., Eutsler B.C., Boyd H.A. Plutonium in autopsy tissue - revision and updating of data reported in La-4875. Health Phys. 1979, 37:1-136.
20. Melin J., Wallberg L., Suomela J. Distribution and retention of cesium and strontium in Swedish boreal forest ecosystems. Sci. Total Environ. 1994, 157:93-105.
21. Morisawa S., Kitou M., Shimada Y., Yoneda M. Evaluation of fallout strontium-90 accumulation in bone and cancer mortality risk in Japanese. J. Atom. Soc. Jpn. 2000, 42:951-959.
22. ODonnell R.G., Mitchell P.I., Priest N.D., Strange L., Fox A., Henshaw D.L., Long S.C. Variations in the concentration of plutonium, strontium-90 and total alpha-emitters in human teeth collected within the British Isles. Sci. Total Environ. 1997, 201:235-243.
23. Papworth D.G., Vennart J. The uptake and turnover of Sr-90 in the human skeleton. Phys. Med. Biol. 1984, 29:1045-1061.
24. Planasbohne F., Duffield J. Factors influencing the uptake of iron and plutonium into cells. Int. J. Radiat. Biol. 1988, 53:489-500.
25. Polig E. Labels of surface-seeking radionuclides in the human skeleton. Health Phys. 1997, 72:19-33.
26. Popplewell D.S., Ham G.J., Johnson T.E., Barry S.F. Plutonium in autopsy tissues in Great-Britain. Health Phys. 1985, 49:304-309.
27. Skuterud L., Gwynn J.P., Gaare E., Steinnes E., Hove K. Sr-90, Po-210 and Pb-210 in lichen and reindeer in Norway. J. Environ. Radioact. 2005, 84:441-456.
28. Sokolnikov M.E., Gilbert E.S., Preston D.L., Ron E., Shilnikova N.S., Khokhryakov V.V., Vasilenko E.K., Koshurnikova N.A. Lung, liver and bone cancer mortality in Mayak workers. Int. J. Cancer. 2008, 123:905-911.
29. Stamoulis K.C., Assimakopoulos P.A., Ioannides K.G., Johnson E., Soucacos P.N. Strontium-90 concentration measurements in human bones and teeth in Greece. Sci. Total Environ. 1999, 229:165-182.
30. Suslova K.G., Khokhryakov V.F., Tokarskaya Z.B., Nifatov A.P., Krahenbuhl M.P., Miller S.C. Extrapulmonary organ distribution of plutonium in healthy workers exposed by chronic inhalation at the Mayak Production Association. Health Phys. 2002, 82:432-444.
31. Suslova K.G., Khokhryakov V.F., Tokarskaya Z.B., Nifatov A.P., Sokolova A.B., Miller S.C., Krahenbul M.P. Modifying effects of health status, physiological, and dosimetric factors on extrapulmonary organ distribution and excretion of inhaled plutonium in workers at the Mayak Production Association. Health Phys. 2006, 90:299-311.
32. Takizawa Y., Hisamatsu S., Ab T., Yamashita J. Actinides and long-lived radionuclides in tissues of the Japanese population: summary of the past 20-year studies. J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. 2000, 243:305-312.
33. Taylor D.M. Environmental plutonium in humans. Appl. Radiat. Isot. 1995, 46:1245-1252.
34. Taylor D.M. The bioinorganic chemistry of actinides in blood. J. Alloys Compd. 1998, 271:6-10.
35. UNSCEAR. 2000. Sources and Effects of Ionizing Radiations. UNSCEAR 2000. Report to the General Assembly, with Scientific Annexes. UN publication E.00.IX.3, vol. 1. United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiations, New York.
36. Warneke T., Croudace I.W., Warwick P.E., Taylor R.N. A new ground-level fallout record of uranium and plutonium isotopes for northern temperate latitudes. Earth Planet Sci. Lett. 2002, 203:1047-1057.
37. Yamamoto M., Hoshi M., Sakaguchi A., Shinohara K., Kurihara O., Apsalikov K.N., Gusev B.I. Plutonium and uranium in human bones from areas surrounding the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site. J. Radiat. Res. 2006, 47:A85-A94.
38. Yamamoto M., Oikawa S., Sakaguchi A., Tomita J., Hoshi M., Apsalikov K.N. Determination of Pu-240/Pu-239 isotopic ratios in human tissues collected from areas around the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site by sector-field high resolution ICP-MS. Health Phys. 2008, 95:291-299.