Re: Natural Radioactivity in Brazil ?

["J. Andrew Tompkins" <jatalbq@mindspring.com>]

I recently made a list of references to the radio-ecology of the Morro do
Ferro in Minais Gerais, Brazil.  You will notice that most of these
studies were performed by Eisenbud, Linsata, and Franca.

J. Andrew Tompkins
Woodstock, GA  30189

jatalbq@mindspring.com

Morro de Ferro References

Eisenbud, M., Linsalata, P., Franca, E.P.,  Use of Natural
Analogs to Predict the Behavior of Transuranic Actinide Elements in the
Environment, pp. 133  148. Proceedings of the Twenty First Annual
Meeting 3-4 April, 1985, RADIOACTIVE WASTE, issued June 1, 1986,
NCRP.

Eisenbud, M., Linsalata, P., Franca, E.P., Ingestion Estimates of Th and
light Rare Earth Elements Based on the Measurements of Human Feces, pp.
163  167.

Linsalata, P., Morse, R., Ford, H., et. al., An Assessment of Soil To
Plant Concentration Ratios for some Natural Analogues of the Transuranic
Elements, Health Physics, Vol. 56, No. 1, (January), pp. 33 
46, 1989.

Lei, W., Linsalata, P., Franca, E.P., Eisenbud, M., Distribution and
Mobilization of cerium, Lanthanum and Neodymium in the Morro do Ferro
Basin, Brazil, Chemical Geology, 55 (1986) 313  322.

Linsalata, P.,  Morse, R., Ford, H., Sequential Determination of
Environmental levels of Isotopic Thorium, Uranium, and the Light Rare
Earth Elements Within the Terrestrial Food Chain by Induced Coupled
Plasma (ICP) and Alpha Spectroscopy, Thirty Second Annual Conference on
Bioassay, Analytical, and Environmental Radiochemistry, NBS,
Gaithersburg, MD, October 21  23, 1986.

Eisenbud, M., et. al., Studies of the Mobilization of Thorium from the
Morro Do Ferro, Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management V,
pp. 735  744., Elsavior Science Publishing Co., 1982, Werner Lutze
Editor.

Eisenbud, M. et. al., Natural Analogs for the Transuranic Actinide
Elements: An Investigatio in Minas Gerais, Brazil, Environmental
Geology and Water Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1984, pp. 1  9.

Linsalate, P., et. al., Radium, Thorium, and the Light Rare Earth
Elements in Soils and Vegetatables Grown in an Area of High Natural
radioactivity, pp. 131  46, Environmental Research on Actinide
Elements, Proceedings of a Symposium held at Hilton Head, South Carolina,
November 7-11, 1983, Conf-841142.

At 05:41 PM 10/1/99 -0500, you wrote:
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>I'm looking for information on radiological hazards in a region
called Minais
>Gerais (sp?) in Brazil.  ........
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