An investigation of the availability of137Cs and239+240Pu for gut absorption in winkles following cooking andin vitrosimulated gastro‐intestinal digestion
作者:
W. A. McKay,
S. D. Memmott,
期刊:
Food Additives & Contaminants
(Taylor Available online 1991)
卷期:
Volume 8,
issue 6
页码: 781-786
ISSN:0265-203X
年代: 1991
DOI:10.1080/02652039109374036
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
关键词: radionuclides;shellfish;bioavailability
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
The consumption of plutonium, americium and radiocaesium in locally collected shellfish is an important contributor to the radiation dose received by seafood consumers living in West Cumbria. Only a small fraction of the actinide activity is assumed to be absorbed via the gut whilst it is assumed that all the radiocaesium is. Solubilization studies reported here using anin vitrodigestion method support the former assumption but not the latter, suggesting that the proportion of the137Cs available for absorption could be significantly smaller than unity where a large percentage of the ingested Cs is adsorbed onto inorganic sedimentary material. Such a situation arises near the Sellafield nuclear‐reprocessing plant where a high proportion of the radiocaesium (and plutonium) in the winkles collected locally and subsequently cooked is associated with inorganic particulate matter.
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