Medical Effects Of Plutonium

Plutonium | Public Health Statement | ATSDR - Centers …

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A small amount of the plutonium you swallow (much less than 1%) will enter other parts of your body (mainly your bones and liver). If plutonium gets onto your healthy skin, very little, if any, plutonium will enter your body. More plutonium will enter your body if it gets onto …

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Once plutonium circulates through the body, it concentrates in the bones, liver, and spleen, exposing these organs to alpha particles. Plutonium that is ingested from contaminated …

Radiation Health Effects | US EPA

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Plutonium, Radioactive - Health Effects - National …

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1) Prodromal stage: Extreme nervousness, confusion, severe nausea, vomiting, watery diarrhea, loss of consciousness, burning skin sensation. Onset within …

Plutonium — toxicity, side effects, diseases and …

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Plutonium can have several adverse effects in humans. One of these is its carcinogenic effect. If plutonium is inhaled, it will be …

Hanford Disaster: What Happens to Someone Who's …

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Radioactive plutonium and uranium All radioactive material, as it decays, can cause harm. As unstable radioactive isotopes, or versions of an element with different molecular weights, decay...

Health Effects of Radiation | Radiation | NCEH | CDC

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Learn more about dose and health effects of radiation Factors that Affect Dose A dose received over a long period of time is less harmful than the same dose received all at once. A dose to a part of the body is less …

3. HEALTH EFFECTS - Agency for Toxic …

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Extreme skin contamination from plutonium-produced alpha and beta radiation, which could potentially occur in accidents or the workplace, might induce dermal and subdermal …

1945–1947: Eighteen patients were injected with …

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The first human subject administered plutonium injections at Oak Ridge Nuclear Facility was 53-year old a “colored man” Ebb Cade, a cement mixer at a construction company …

Polonium-210: Effects, symptoms, and diagnosis

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Symptoms would depend on the strength of polonium used. They would likely include: nausea and vomiting anorexia hair loss lowered white blood cell count, or lymphopenia diarrhea damage to bone...