[ RadSafe ] Plutonium with High Concentrations Hazards Summary (Draft Number One).

[John R Johnson]

Otto

Thanks, that is what I thought.

John
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-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl]On
Behalf Of Otto G. Raabe
Sent: September 9, 2005 1:10 PM
To: Emil; radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Plutonium with High Concentrations Hazards
Summary (Draft Number One).


September 9, 2005

The solubility product constant for Pu(IV) is about
0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001, which means that at
physiological pH there are effectively zero ions of plutonium in the body.
This means that Pu in the body is quite inert!

Also, it quite difficult to get Pu into the systemic circulation since only
about 0.00001 of an ingested amount enters the blood and it only very
slowly can pass from the lung to the blood if inhaled (half time measured
in years), unless it is inhaled in a chelatable chemical form.

There is therefore no expected chemical toxicity associated with plutonium,
except for the imaginary chemical toxicity.

Otto

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