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United States Transuranium & Uranium Registries

>> View Dr. James presentation to NIAID/NIH entitled "What We Should Learn from Lifetime Follow-up of U.S. Former Plutonium Workers".
>> Run streaming video presentation "USTUR: The Fifth Decade of Worker Follow-up"
WSU/USTUR receives commendation from DOE’s Chief Health Safety and Security Officer
2011 Scientific Advisory Committee Meeting

USTUR Lab a Unique Facility for WSU Students

WSU's Office of Marketing and Creative Services identified the USTUR Laboratory as a unique facility that is available to the students at WSU. We expect to be included on the College Board website in a few months.

>>Accessing the College Board website

Sad Sad News

Tony James We regret to bring you very sad news from Richland. Our dear and appreciated colleague, collaborator and friend Dr. Tony James passed away in Seattle this morning (July 20th) from cancer. He will be greatly missed.

Internal Contamination by Radionuclides –
Five Centuries of Human Experience

From “Mountain Sickness” in the 15th century silver mines of Erzgebirge to the 2006 “elimination” of Alexander Litvinenko – what are the links? View Dr. James’ lecture to the Spring 2010 WSU/Tri-Cities graduate course on “Radiation Biology & Ecology.”
>>“Incorporated Radionuclides: Health Effects, Dosimetry and the National Radiobiology Archives (NRA)”

Standardizing Bioassay Assessment

USTUR applies the UK Health Protection Agency’s (HPA) IMBA Professional Plus (IPP) software to assess actinide intakes in individual Registrant cases – providing rigorous tests of the IPP methodology.
See details
>>Introduction to Internal Dosimetry: Presentation by Dr. Matt Puncher, UK Health Protection Agency (with permission)



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Public Outreach

>>USTUR in the Community

USTUR in the News

The USTUR was featured in a front-page Tri-City Herald article on Sunday, October 24, 2010.

>>Read the article online

Sabbatical Researcher to Study Ca-DTPA Therapy at the USTUR Research Center

Breustedt Dr. Breustedt - of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany - will be modeling the effects of chelating agents in two USTUR Registrant tissue donors.

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USTUR Director Re-Appointed Editor of JJHP

S.Y. TolmachevDr. Sergei Tolmachev has been appointed to serve on the Editorial Board for the Japanese Journal of Health Physics.

>>Learn More

Historical Radium Studies

Radium dial painters, Radithor, Argonne National Laboratory.

arrowsLearn about U.S. radium studies

 

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