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BIOLOGY OF RADIOIODINE Proceedings of the Hanf or d Symposium on the Biology of Radioiodine
Sponsored by THE U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION and the
HANFORD LABORATORIES OF THE GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY RICHLAND, WASHINGTON, JULY 17-19
Edited by L. K. BUSTAD
SYMPOSIUM PUBLICATIONS DIVISION
PERGAMON PRESS OXFORD
· LONDON · EDINBURGH · NEW YORK PARIS · FRANKFURT 1964
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Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 64-15928
This collection of papers has recently been published in the Journal of Health Physics Vol. 9, No. 12 {Pergamon Press 1963)
Printed in Great Britain by The Universities Press, Belfast, Northern Ireland
INTRODUCTION H. A. K O R N B E R G
contributions in the area of the subject matter of this symposium he was appointed its Honorary Chairman. T h e first in this series of symposia was o n the I N A sense this second Hanford symposium h a d its beginning fifteen years ago when we set o u t Biology of the T r a n s u r a n i u m Elements a n d was to evaluate the hazard to animals grazing on held here one year ago. Its general chairman land contaminated with radioactive contami was D r . R O Y C. THOMPSON, a n d proceedings of nants from airborne production wastes. Plans the symposium were published in the December were m a d e in 1948 for the now well-known 1962 issue of Health Physics. Next year's Sympo experiment on t h e toxicity of I 1 3 1 in large sium will be on the Biology of Radioactive animals. T o help perform t h e experiments D r . Particles, under the general chairmanship of Biology Laboratory, Hanford Laboratories, General Electric Company, Richland, Washington
L E O BUSTAD was added to our almost non existent staff in biology. Since then his contribu tions to knowledge of the biological effects of I 1 3 1 have been many, a n d it is appropriate that he is the General C h a i r m a n of the second Hanford Biology Symposium. While our I 1 3 1 toxicity experiment was still in its planning stages D r . SHIELDS W A R R E N kindly extended a n invitation
to D r . BUSTAD to spend some time studying radiation pathology of the thyroid gland in his laboratories a t t h e N e w England Deaconess Hospital in Boston. A t that time D r . W A R R E N was also serving as the first Director of the AEC's Division of Biology a n d Medicine a n d therefore helped start our project on the chronic toxicity of I 131 . I n recognition of his m a n y significant
D r . W . J . BAIR.
A total of about 150 off-site visitors have registered for this symposium, a n d the countries represented a r e : England, France, Belgium, West Germany, India, J a p a n , United A r a b Republic, C a n a d a a n d the United States. O n behalf of Hanford Biology Laboratory you are warmly welcomed a n d have our best wishes for an interesting a n d successful symposium. T h e Invocation was delivered b y E. M E E N A
of Tanganyika a n d t h e Union Seminary of New York. *
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* Copies may be obtained from the Symposium Editor.
SYMPOSIUM ON THE BIOLOGY OF RADIOIODINE: STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM H. D . B R U N E R Division of Biology a n d Medicine, U . S . Atomic Energy Commission, Washington 25, D . C . WHEN
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