A human approach to the study of plutonium

摘要

In a human experiment designed to study the metabolic pathways of plutonium, two scientists inhaled nitrates of plutonium; its movement through the men is closely monitored. The two men involved in the plutonium inhalation testing, which took place in the UK nearly two years ago, were also subjects in an earlier experiment in which they were injected with plutonium. The importance of the recent experiment is that inhalation is much more representative of how people would take in plutonium following an accidental release.