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Main Title Animal investigation program 1981 annual report : Nevada test site and vicinity /
Author Smith, D. D. ; Giles, K. R.
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Smith, Donald. D.
Giles, K. R.
Bernhardt, D. E.
Smith, D. D.
CORP Author Environmental Monitoring Systems Lab., Las Vegas, NV.;Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
Publisher Environmental Monitoring and Systems Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ; Available from NTIS,
Year Published 1983
Report Number EPA 600-3-83-014; DOE/DP/00539-047; AI08-76DP00539
Stock Number DE83-014397
OCLC Number 41668391
Subjects Radioactive tracers in animal culture ; Nevada Test Site (Nev) ; Nuclear weapons--Nevada--Testing ; Radioisotopes in the body ; Nuclear weapons--Testing ; Nevada--Nevada Test Site
Additional Subjects Wild Animals ; Cattle ; Cesium 137 ; Strontium 90 ; Plutonium 238 ; Plutonium 239 ; Nevada Test Site ; Goats ; Deer ; Horses ; Radioecological Concentration ; Man ; Radiation Doses ; Environmental Exposure Pathway ; Behavior ; Pathology ; Body Burden ; Sampling ; Contamination ; Experimental Data ; ERDA/510302
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ELBD ARCHIVE EPA 600-3-83-014 Received from HQ AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 10/04/2023
ERAD  EPA 600/3-83-014 Region 9 Library/San Francisco,CA 10/22/2012
NTIS  DE83014397 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation v, 65 pages : maps ; 28 cm.
Abstract
Data are presented from the radioanalysis of tissues, collected from animals that resided on or near the Nevada Test Site (NTS). Other than naturally occurring potassium-40, cesium-137 was the only gamma-emitting radionuclide frequently detected and was within a narrow range of activity. For example, 12 of 14 cattle muscle samples contained 15 to 65 pCi of cesium-137 per kilogram. Strontium-90 and plutonium-238 or -239 tissue concentrations were similar to those of recent years. Nanocurie levels of tritium were found in tissue from two deer that drank contaminated water draining from the tunnel test areas. Annual dose estimates to man were calculated based on the daily consumption of 0.5 kg of tissue with peak radionuclide levels. The highest postulated dose was 45 millirems to the whole body from ingestion of deer muscle that drank from the tritium contaminated waters. This dose is about 9% of the radiation protection guide. Movement of deer on the NTS is discussed. In general, deer from Pahute Mesa winter in the Timber Mt. area with some movement off the NTS, while deer from Rainier Mesa winter in the Shoshone Mt. area. The sudden death of an offsite goat kid was investigated and death was attributed to enterotoxemia. No gross or microscopic lesions in necropsied animals were found that could be attributed to the effect of ionizing radiation. (ERA citation 08:042230)
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Prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy under memorandum of understanding no. DE-AI08-76PD00539. DOE/DP/00539-047. "EPA 600-3-83-014." Cover title. Includes bibliographical references (pages 26-28).