Radioactive iodine-131 fallout hazard

Date:
1956-1978
Reference:
PP/EEP/C.25
Part of:
Pochin, Sir Edward Eric
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Includes a newspaper cutting (12 Oct, ny) 'Fallout affects food in U.S.', voicing concern (following analyses of milk in six cities) at the introduction of I-131 into fresh food supplies from Soviet fallout nuclear test; notes, graphs and calculations re uptake by human (including small children) and animal (deer, cattle and sheep) thyroids, some figures being taken from the Windscale area (Oct 1957-Apr 1958, & n.d.), and analyses of milk; also, two printed articles relating to I-131 from Health Physics Journal 1964 and British Journal of Radiology, 51, Apr 1978.

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1956-1978

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