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Re: Bioaccumulation Factors

Suggest you give NRC RegGuide 1.09 a look; if data do not exist, suggest 
you use chemical homologue with additional factor to be on safe side.

Ron Kathren

On Thu, 6 Apr 1995, meg macleod wrote:

>   If someone has the following reference:
> 
>  S.E. Thompson, et al., "Concentration Factors of Chemical Elements in Edible
>   Aquatic Organisms", USAEC Report UCRL-50564, Rev. 1, Lawrence Radiation
>   Laboratory, October 1972.
> 
>   Looking for by the end of today, what the bioaccumulation factors and
>   bioconcentration factors for Tl-208 and Ac-228 are.  If the factors for
>   these radionuclides cannot be found, can serrogate elements be used to
>   represent the BAF and BCF values for these radionuclides?
>