Uranium · Plutonium Transplutonic Elements

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-2

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2. Uranium

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 3-3

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   2. A History of Uranium Poisoning (1824–1942)

      • Harold C. Hodge

      Pages 5-68

   3. Physical and Chemical Properties of Uranium

      • James E. Gindler

      Pages 69-164

   4. Animal Experiments

      • C. L. Yuile

      Pages 165-196

   5. Data on Man

      • J. B. Hursh, N. L. Spoor

      Pages 197-239

   6. Protection Criteria

      • N. L. Spoor, J. B. Hursh

      Pages 241-270

   7. Environmental Monitoring and Personnel Protection in Uranium Processing

      • L. M. Scott

      Pages 271-294

   8. Uranium Mining Hazards

      • D. A. Holaday

      Pages 295-306

3. Plutonium

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 307-308

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   2. Biomedical Aspects of Plutonium (Discovery, Development, Projections)

      • J. N. Stannard

      Pages 309-322

   3. Chemical and Physical Properties of Plutonium

      • David M. Taylor

      Pages 323-347

   4. Distribution, Excretion and Effects of Plutonium as a Bone-Seeker

      • Janet Vaughan, Betty Bleaney, David M. Taylor

      Pages 349-502

   5. Plutonium in Soft Tissues with Emphasis on the Respiratory Tract

      • W. J. Bair, J. E. Ballou, J. F. Park, C. L. Sanders

      Pages 503-568

   6. Maximum Permissible Body Burdens and Concentrations of Plutonium: Biological Basis and History of Development

      • W. H. Langham, J. W. Healy

      Pages 569-592

   7. Bioassay of Plutonium

      • Anne De G. Low-Beer

      Pages 593-611

   8. Plutonium. Industrial Hygiene, Health Physics and Related Aspects

      • H. M. Parker

      Pages 613-667

   9. Plutonium in the Environment

      • J. N. Stannard

      Pages 669-688

4. The Transplutonic Elements

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 689-690

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   2. A History of the Transplutonic Elements

      • A. Ghiorso

      Pages 691-715

More than a year ago the three editors sat down at a table and worked out a set of six chapter headings which they believed might serve, in turn, for each of the three sections of this handbook. (The reader will note a similarity in order of presentation and in emphasis.) However, as our editorial plans progressed it became apparent that for each element and for the element group, there were one or two special topics appropiate for that section alone. Accordingly, in the section on uranium the common pattern holds for Chaps. 1 through 6 which include: an introduction (Chap. 1), a discussion of the physical and chemical properties (Chap. 2), experimental data on animals (Chap. 3), ex­ perimental data on man (Chap. 4), the rationale and development of air con­ centration limits to control industrial worker exposure (Chap. 5), and the prac­ tical problems of applying such limits in the uranium industry (Chap. 6). Chap. 7 entitled "Uranium Mining Hazards" is the subject category which is special for uranium; the chapter brings up to date the account of an important occupational hazard which was first noted by GEORGIUS AGRICOLA (1490-1555).

• Plutonium
• Transuran
• Uran
• Uranium
• research

• Department of Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, USA

  Harold C. Hodge

• Department of Radiation Biology and Biophysics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, USA

  John B. Hursh, J. Newell Stannard

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