Methodology using a portable X-ray fluorescence device for on-site and rapid evaluation of heavy-atom contamination in wounds: a model study for application to plutonium contamination.

Methodology using a portable X-ray fluorescence device for on-site and rapid evaluation of heavy-atom contamination in wounds: a model study for application to plutonium contamination.

Workers decommissioning the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant damaged from the Great East Japan Earthquake and resulting tsunami are at risk of injury with possible contamination from radioactive heavy atoms including actinides, such as plutonium. We propose a new methodology for on-site and rap...

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Main Authors: Hiroshi Yoshii, Kouta Yanagihara, Hitoshi Imaseki, Tsuyoshi Hamano, Hirokuni Yamanishi, Masayo Inagaki, Yasuhiro Sakai, Nobuyuki Sugiura, Osamu Kurihara, Kazuo Sakai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4092075?pdf=render

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