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Notes on Activities in Relation to 1963-67 Ido Goals

Dated
Nov 11, 1963
Document type
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Length
2 pages
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The electronic data processing of internal dosimetry data m e reviewed in requested but not accmpllshed. plete imteatory Ileting of bioassay analyses for each persan since the first uac of electronic data processingtechniques vas prep & .Fr m this listing, a resume' of bioassay results wfll be placed i n emplopes' record folders. An Lulllual bioassay tape file wss started which W t s retention of individual bioassay results for an inventory listing st year end. PKNiSIon v8s made for the calculation tmtment of termination tam3 on-plant samples. Contrary t o previous notian, aprom rekl.lte was not considered A nmber of changes were made in t h e system and several were The fol lm hg itans were of note. A COIP An audit procedure was decided upan but not implanented due to other ccxznltconsidered at this the.E val mt la of depositim cases I s not seriously The dtselopnent of the mobile thyroid monitor i s considered t o be in the area of improVea methology related to Internal Dosimetry. is being developed t o provlde a fast moving emrlromerrtal tlqToid monitoring sensitivity with minimum shielding. Equipent was assembled aru9 experiments began t o obtain maxbm The detelrminina, of "the most appropriate mathemstical nod& of plutonluui" is still i n the gestation sta&-with the 189 request f o r funds recently The goal of autcrmating radiation close t o organs of interest i s not cansidered Wternal body dose, of tbyroid btadens other than q ripen tal which would warrant deternination of organ aose as a separate item. Thyroid dose collld be automated though there is no record

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sidering levels in food supplies. becauee radioactivity lcvclir In milk were generally dn.Ima2. surveillsncc ~p?clgraawas initiated to watch for Irm-eeses In body burdens derlved fkcm the Coltrnbia River. The coaperative study on uptake anb uptake blocking w8s continued vith Environmental Stales and Evaluation (Gsme!rtsfelaCr) and Biology. iaafne Synposium at Richland In W e , 1963. TU6 required rel at iv d feu counts - of various radlonuelldcs resulting from Rlchlertd s snit azy water being 1. Realization of the study of the excretion and retention of plutonium 2. Ccmpletim an8 flret flelcl use of the mobile tayroia monitor. 3. Es falls h (IP dwelop the ability of mobile thymid modtar t o Signal the presence of other m a emitting nuclldes in the body.