[ RadSafe ] Pu-239 famous chemical toxicity

[Baumbaugh, Joel SPAWAR]

Or this site (on line):

 

http://chem.sis.nlm.nih.gov/chemidplus/ProxyServlet?objectHandle=DBMaint
&actionHandle=default&nextPage=jsp/chemidlite/ResultScreen.jsp&TXTSUPERL
ISTID=007440075

 

Joel Baumbaugh again....

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
Behalf Of James Salsman
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 2:09 PM
To: radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Pu-239 famous chemical toxitity

 

 > Pu as a chemical toxin is new to me. Can you give me a

 > useful reference?

 

H.G. Clayclamp and D. Luo, "Plutonium-catalyzed oxidative DNA

damage in the absence of significant alpha-particle decay,"

Radiation Research, vol. 137 (1994), pp. 114-117, which states,

"Using ... 242Pu ... chemical generation of hydroxyl radicals

was expected to exceed the radiolytic generation by one hundred

thousand-fold."

 

Full abstract on MEDLINE:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dop
t=Abstract&list_uids=8265780

 

Posted here by yours truly a month ago:

   http://lists.radlab.nl/pipermail/radsafe/2005-August/000173.html

 

Sincerely,

James

 

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