Radioiodine in Milk of Cows Consuming Stored Feed and of Cows on Pasture
- 21 December 1962
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 138 (3547) , 1334-1335
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.138.3547.1334
Abstract
During a period of 17 days, 2 months after termination of the Russian nuclear test series in 1961, iodine-131 was measured in milk. Within 2 days after the study was begun, the herd on pasture showed 270 pc iodine-131 per liter of milk. This concentration decreased with a half-life of 7 ± 1 days. No iodine-131 was found in the milk from sheltered cows that consumed stored feed.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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