Papers presented at the Symposium on Circumpolar Health Related Problems, Fairbanks, Alaska, July 23-28, 1967. Archives of Environmental Health. 17(4):639-648
Papers presented at the Symposium on Circumpolar Health Related Problems, Fairbanks, Alaska, July 23-28, 1967. Archives of Environmental Health. 17(4):639-648
The concentration of radioactive fallout within various components of arctic ecosystems has been extensively studied during recent years as a consequence of the transmission in significant amounts of certain radionuclides to human populations. Major research and radiological health emphasis has focused on the two long-lived fallout components, strontium 90 (90Sr) and cesium 137 (137Cs). Long physical half-lives of 28 and 30 years, respectively, and other properties make them available over extended periods of time and provide the opportunity to study cycling properties in biologic systems. Although fallout deposition at 60 to 70° North latitude is but one-fourth to one-half that of the temperate regions, the lichen-caribou (reindeer)-man food chain consistently yields high concentrations of most fallout radionuclides in man.
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From: Fortuine, Robert et al. 1993. The Health of the Inuit of North America: A Bibliography from the Earliest Times through 1990. University of Alaska Anchorage. Citation number 829.