| Issue |
Radioprotection
Volume 37, Number C1, February 2002
ECORAD 2001: The Radioecology - Ecotoxicology of Continental and Estuatine Environments
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| Page(s) | C1-367 - C1-371 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/radiopro/2002068 | |
| Published online | 14 October 2009 | |
99Tc transfer from water to monogastric
1
Laboratoire de Sciences Animales, INRA-INPL-UHP, ENSAIA, BP. 172, 54505 Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France
2
EDF-CNPE de Cattenom, BP. 41, 57570 Cattenom, France
Technetium-99 (T1/2 : 212 000 years) is derived from the fission of uranium-235 and produced more particularly by nuclear fuel reprocessing plants. We studied, during a chronic contamination by water, excretion, distribution and retention of 99Tc in rats as monogastric model. More than 85 % of ingested 99Tc is excreted by urine and feces, urinary way being dominant from the first week, to reach 72 % of total excretion at the end of the experiment (14 weeks). The thyroid and hair content increased until the end of the treatment. They represented respectively 0.1 and 16 % of the given dose, after 98 days of intake. The liver and the kidneys content reached a plateau between the 40th and the 56th days of the exposure period. There was no 99Tc in the muscle and the intestine.
© EDP Sciences, 2002
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