The story of Plutonium injection experiments

Experiments, 1945-47, in which eighteen hospital patients were injected with plutonium.

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1945–1947

Plutonium injection experiments. Experiments, 1945-47, in which eighteen hospital patients were injected with plutonium.

Plutonium injection experiments involved Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Rochester, New York, Chicago, Manhattan Project and the Atomic Energy Commission.

Plutonium injection experiments, interventions: Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments.

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Pictures, from Wikimedia Commons: Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Brian Stansberry, CC BY 3.0; Manhattan Project, Jack W. Aeby, July 16, 1945, Civilian worker at Los Alamos laboratory, working under the a, Public domain.