Human radiation experiments.

["Dale E. Boyce" <dale@radpro.uchicago.edu>]

DOE has released advance copies of their report "Human Radiation
Experiments:  The Department of Energy Roadmap to the Story and
the Records".

In it we learn that DOE has spent 200 man years developing the
report.

We also learn that a certain university injected 9 subjects
with Tc99m to determine if it would make a suitable imaging
agent.  I guess the parties involved should have just assumed
it would work, written a Rx, and not called it an experiment!

I haven't seen the whole report, but I'm sure it will make
interesting reading to see how many of the experiments turn
out to be procedures that are routinely used today. 

Dale

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