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Nuclear Warfare

 
 
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Disease relevance of Nuclear Warfare

  • Chronic exposure to high LET radiation has been shown to cause liver cancer in humans based on studies of patients who received Thorotrast, a colloidal suspension of thorium dioxide formerly used as a radiological contrast agent, and on studies of Russian nuclear weapons workers exposed to internally ingested plutonium [1].
 

High impact information on Nuclear Warfare

 

Biological context of Nuclear Warfare

  • The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDH) sponsored a study to reconstruct contaminant doses to the public from operations at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant [7].
 

Associations of Nuclear Warfare with chemical compounds

  • Soil containing thorium oxide (ThO2) was applied to the site for approximately 30 years (early 1960-1990) and was used to simulate a plutonium release from a nuclear weapons accident [8].
  • The biokinetics of plutonium-239 and americium-241 in the rat after subcutaneous deposition of contaminated particles from the former nuclear weapons site at Maralinga: implications for human exposure [9].
  • Nuclear weapons. Iran's trouble with molybdenum may give diplomacy a second chance [10].
  • The distribution and history of nuclear weapons related contamination in sediments from the Ob River, Siberia as determined by isotopic ratios of plutonium and neptunium [11].
  • Tritium levels ranged up to 420 mBq L(-1) and showed no evidence of inputs other than those attributed to atmospheric nuclear weapons testing [12].
 

Gene context of Nuclear Warfare

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  8. Characterization of a military training site containing 232Thorium. Larson, S.L., Bednar, A.J., Ballard, J.H., Shettlemore, M.G., Gent, D.B., Christodoulatos, C., Manis, R., Morgan, J.C., Fields, M.P. Chemosphere (2005) [Pubmed]
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