Body burdens of cesium-137 and potassium-40 in twenty-one members of the wintering party of the 16th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition 1975

• Main Authors: Mitsumasa Miyashita, Yoriko Atomi, Keiko Ueda
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: National Institute of Polar Research 1977
• Subjects: Geography (General); G1-922; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Yamato; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.15094/00007948; https://doaj.org/article/0ba3bfb1a87f43b5950f0d6ae52eb71b

In this study, body burdens of cesium-137 and potassium-40 were measured using a human counter with 21 members of the 16th wintering party. The purposes of these measurements were (1) to observe the radioactive pollution in Japan and Antarctica through the human body, and (2) to estimate the effect...