ML20138F955
| ML20138F955 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 11/27/1985 |
| From: | Grimsley D NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION (ADM) |
| To: | Burke J AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| References | |
| FOIA-85-753 NUDOCS 8512160206 | |
| Download: ML20138F955 (2) | |
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p 271985 Mrs. Jessie L. Burke P.O. Box 51 IN RESPONSE REFER Tarpon Springs, FL 33589 TO F01A-85-753
Dear Mrs. Burke:
This is in response to your letter dated .0ctober 17, 1985, in which you requested, pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, a list of laboratories in the United States that have equipment to test for the presence.of plutonium in a living body and references to articles, books, or texts which deal with the testing for plutonium in the body after death.
Listed below are laboratories and universities that are capable of carrying out plutonium measurements in a living body.
Mr. H. E. Palmer Dr. John Rundo Battelle Memorial Institute, Argonne National Laboratory Pacific Northwest Laboratories 9700 South Cass Avenue P.O. Box 999. Argonne, IL 60439 Richland, WA 99352 (312) 972-4156 (509) 942-6102 Mr. J. C. Rosen Dr. M. Eisenbud University of Pittsburgh New York University Radiation Safety Office P.O. Box 817 L-401 Tuxedo, NY 10987 Presbyterian University Hospital (914) 351-2368 DeSota and O'Hara Streets Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (412) 647-3595 Ms. Carol Berger Oak Ridge National Laboratory P.O. Box 6 - Building 2008 Oak Ridge, TN 37830 (615) 574-6662 The following individuals may be contacted regarding the testing for plutonium in the body after death.
Dr. James F. McInroy Mr. Ronald L. Kathren Los Alamos National Laboratory U.S. Transuranium Registry P.O. Box 1663 Hanford Environmental Health K-4 8-4 Foundation Los Alamos, NM 27545 P.O. Box 100 (505) 667-4709 Richland, WA 99352 (509) 376-9962 h21 06 851127 BURKE 85-75 PDR
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Mrs. Jessie L. Bur'ke We have been informed by the staff that the following individual may be able to help with arrangements for plutonium counting as well as medical follow-up in the Southeastern United States.
Dr. Robert C. Ricks Oak Ridge Associated Universities P.O. Box 117 Oak Ridge, TN 37830 (615) 576-3130 Publ'ished books dealing with the subject of plutonium counting are:
- Hodge, H. C. et al., Uranium, Plutonium and the Transplutonium Elements, (Handbook,0f Experimental Pharmacology, Vol. 36)
- Nenot, J. C. and Stather, J. W., The Toxicity of Plutonium, Americium and Curium
- Norwood, W. D., Health Protection of Radiation Workers
~ The above ~ books can be obtained through any local. book publisher, or examined in a medical school or public health school library. Most of the pertinent articles on this subject would be found in the journals Health Physics and Radiation Research.
If you have any questions regarding this matter, please telephone Dick Lavins on (301) 492-9564.
Sincerely, y /f b n~a bt; Donnie H. Grimsley, Director Division of Rules and Records Office of Administration