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USTUR 0040: Rocky Flats — No Recorded Intake
Intake
This registrant worked at the Rocky Flats Plant for about 4 years. He had no recorded intake incidents.
Health Physics
No urine samples were collected from this worker.
One in-vivo chest analysis and one liver count were performed in 1971. The results did not exceed background.
No data on the registrant’s external radiation dose are available.
Autopsy and Pathology
The Registrant died at age 60 y from an acute myocardial infarction.
Portions of the right and left lung, trachea-bronchial and pulmonary lymph nodes, liver, kidneys, spleen, heart, and sternum were taken at autopsy.
Contemporary Dose Estimates
The last plutonium body burden estimates made by Rocky Flats personnel are as follows:
| % of Maximum Permissible Burden |
Maximum Permissible Burden |
Calculated Estimate of Burden |
|
| Systemic Burden | background | 40 nCi | - |
| Lung Burden | background | 16 nCi | - |
To use USTUR narrative data, please cite:
USTUR 0040: Rocky Flats — No Recorded Intake: Narrative. United States Transuranium and Uranium Registries. 3 November 2009. Washington State University: College of Pharmacy. Accessed 23 November 2009. Available at: http://www.ustur.wsu.edu/Case_Studies/Narratives/0040_Narrative.php.
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