Abstract
This paper deals with skin contamination of plutonium, of which safe handling is a serious problem. Experiments were carried out by use of auto-radiographic analysis of plutonium contamination on pig skin.
It was found that plutonium contaminated hair-tops, hair-shafts, hair-follicles, furrows and pores on the skin, and the hair contamination could not be disregarded in the decontaminating treatment. Exact analysis of skin contamination by plutonium is, however, in need of further investigation.
