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Re: Plutonium bioassay

To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: Plutonium bioassay
From: Justin Wilde <jlwilde@eng.utah.edu>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 10:40:05 -0600 (MDT)
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19990909132708.006a4ca8@mail.bright.net>

There is another method for measuring the Pu concentration in urine, that
being fission track analysis (FTA).  FTA measures only the Pu-239 and has
a lower detection limit around 100 aCi/L (I hope the mixing of units does
not disturb anyone too much).

Justin Wilde

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