Epidemiologic Studies

Hanford Site

Plutonium Internal Deposition Study Records, 1945, 1955-1973, 1981, 1983

Location:

Active:
Inactive: RHA, 712 Building, Federal Center

Originating Office: HEHF

Finding Aids: RHA-MIS Database

Disposition Authority:: DOE (1988) 1.3

Series Description: This series consists of various forms used to document incidents of internal exposure to plutonium among both Hanford employees and Richland area residents. A majority of the forms provide employee names; payroll, social security, and case numbers; incident dates; modes of intake; building and department assignments; cumulative deposition amounts; and number and types of treatments. Other forms appear to contain data from autopsies performed at a local hospital. Data on these forms include hospital case numbers; the decedents' occupations, residences, and causes of death; whether decedents were plutonium workers; and plutonium levels in lung, liver, and bone tissue samples. Also interfiled in the records is a copy of a U.S. Transuranium Registry Report, prepared in May 1983, pertaining to a 49-year old radiochemist who died of metastatic melanoma in 1979. The study appears to have been a comprehensive radiochemical analysis of the tissues of the decedent, who had worked with americium since 1952.

For related files and records, see INTDEP.DAT; 1 [aka INT89] and Internal Exposure Records, 1974-1976.

Data Elements: 7-8, 39, 54, 56, 69, 71, 81