INCORPORATION AND CONTROL OF STRONTIUM, CESIUM, AND IODINE SECRETION IN MILK

Abstract

Experimental verification of a method for the prediction of the total intake commitment of 137Cs, 90Sr and 131I from milk by average members of a human population following deposition of fallout on pasture is presented. The method has been expanded to account for extended and multiple depositions and delays in pasturing cows. As a dietary countermeasure against radiostrontium secretion into milk sodium alginate was about twice as effective as aluminum phosphate gel. Ferric ferrocyanide fed to cows produced over a 90% reduction in 137Cs in milk.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0701190

Entities

People

  • Cyril L. Comar
  • Fredrich W. Lengemann
  • Richard A. Wentworth

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Alginic Acid
  • Aluminum
  • Animals
  • Civil Defense
  • Combinatorial Analysis
  • Computational Science
  • Cyanides
  • Dietary Supplements
  • Digestive System Processes
  • Equations
  • Human Population
  • Materials
  • Mathematical Models
  • Models
  • New York
  • Predictive Modeling
  • Scintillation Counters

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  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Nuclear and Radiation Engineering.