Fission of Natural Uranium in Tumor and Normal Tissue

摘要

Using the technology of tracer autoradiography we investigated tumors tissue removed surgically from a kidney because of clear-cell cancer (carcinoma clarocellulare), as well as tissue from the inferior pole of the kidney presumed to be normal on the basis of the results of histologic examination. It was found that nine cases of natural uranium fission were recorded in the tumorous tissue, while there was only one fission process in the tissue presumed to be normal. It is assumed that the single fission process could occur because of spontaneous fission of the uranium. A suggestion is made that the remaining cases of fission could be of neutron origin. (ERA citation 08:013173)