Radiocesium levels measured in breast milk one year after the reactor accident at Chernobyl.
One hundred-two samples of colostral milk, collected during spring of 1987, approximately one year after the reactor accident at Chernobyl, were measured for radiocesium contamination. The data showed a normal-type distribution with a mean contamination concentration of 16.4 Bq L-1. A weak correlation of the data to the mothers' diet was established by taking into account four of the main staples in the area. The corresponding transfer coefficient was deduced with a value of fm = 0.06 +/- 0.03 d L-1. The resultant effective dose received by breast-feeding infants was estimated, on the average, as 0.012 mrem d-1.
Assimakopoulos
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PA
Nuclear Physics Laboratory, University of Ioannina, Greece.
Ioannides
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KG
Pakou
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Lolis
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D
Zikopoulos
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K
Dusias
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B
D000059:Accidents; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002588:Cesium Radioisotopes / Q000032:analysis*; D005260:Female; D006115:Greece; D006801:Humans; D008895:Milk, Human / Q000032:analysis*; D009688:Nuclear Reactors; D011847:Radioactive Fallout / Q000032:analysis*; D013997:Time Factors; D014455:Ukraine
D002588:Cesium Radioisotopes; D011847:Radioactive Fallout