Plutonium pneumosclerosis: chemical view
(history and the reasons of an occupational disease),
part 2


Sadovsky A.S. (asadovsky@rambler.ru), Tovmash A.V.

Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry, Moscow, Russia

Operating conditions and a level of the accident prevention at early production phases of plutonium to the USA and the USSR are compared. Frequency of disease by a pneumosclerosis of the personnel of the enterprises in Hanford, Los Alamos/Rocky Flats/ Ozersk corresponds as 0/6/126. Such ratio was defined not by quality of nuclear filters or availability of respiratory organs protective devices, and mainly features of process engineering.