New method could shed light on workers’ historical radiation exposure

Researchers in the UK have developed a new method for evaluating plutonium workers’ historical internal radiation exposure. They focused their efforts on workers employed at the start of plutonium operations at the Sellafield (formerly Windscale) nuclear reprocessing facility in the UK.

Source: sciencedaily.com

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