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Speciation and Bioavailability Measurements of Environmental Plutonium Using Diffusion in Thin Films
Published on: November 9, 2015
[Lung histopathology during plutonium-238 incorporation]
Abstract:
In experiments with albino mongrel female rats a study was made of the response of the lungs to a single intratracheal injection of nitrate of 238Pu (0.4-740 kBq/kg). The nature of the inflammatory disease, the lymphoid tissue condition, pneumosclerosis occurrence, and the frequency and spectrum of lung tumors were shown to be a function of dose of the radionuclide administered.

