Cesium-137 in Humans

Abstract

A model has been developed which relates the 13'ICs in humans to the lS7Cs in their milk supply. The data on which the model was based included periodic measurements of fallout 13'ICQ in residents of 19 Utah dairy farms during the years 1962 through 1966 and in monthly collections of milk produced on these 19 farms over the same period of time. Extension of the model to residents of 9 North American cities indicated its applicability to other similar populations. Appropriate adaptations could prove to be of utility in the prospective or retrospective projection of human 13'ICs body burdens produced by contaminating nuclear events for which estimates of lS7Cs in milk arc available by model or by measurement.