Plutonium Medical Experiments

1945–1947: Eighteen patients were injected with …

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1945–1947: Eighteen patients were injected with plutonium in AEC experiments. During WWII, hundreds of scientists and technicians working to develop the atomic bomb at Los Alamos were exposed to radioactive substances, including plutonium, whose hazards …

Human Radiation Experiments - Nuclear Museum

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Between April 1945 and July 1947, eighteen subjects were injected with plutonium, six with uranium, five with polonium, and at least one with americium. …

Human Plutonium Injection Experiments - Stanford …

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Fig. 1: Various oxidation states of plutonium in solution. …

The Plutonium Files - Wikipedia

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Albert Stevens - Wikipedia

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The World War II plutonium experiments: contested …

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During the Second World War medical researchers around the USA injected 18 hospital patients with radioactive plutonium in order to learn its effects on the …

The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical …

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Fearful that plutonium might cause a cancer epidemic among workers and desperate to learn more about what it could do to the human body, the Manhattan Project's medical doctors embarked upon an …

Chapter 5: Human Experimentation Continues - Energy

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Argonne's follow-up plan for the plutonium experiments was to uncover the postinjection medical histories of all the subjects, obtain biological material from those still living, and …

Plutonium - Nuclear Museum - Atomic Heritage …

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Plutonium production was essential for the Manhattan Project, and scientists at institutions throughout the country were competing with isotope separation methods to create it during 1942. …

The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical …

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In a Massachusetts school, seventy-three disabled children were spoon fed radioactive isotopes along with their morning …