Using Strontium90 to trace body origin

[Guest kriston]

Hi...

 

Can ANyone help me find any sites with info/reports on the following:

 

Scientist measuring strontium 90 in a dead body/bones/teeth and using this information to locate the origin, and identify the body.

 

Thanks

 

[atinymonkey]

Hmmmm, are you talking about the oddly titled 'project sunshine'? The US did some macabre experiments using cadavers and strontium 90 in the 1950's, hence the happy name.

[YT2095]

Anyone having Sr 90 in their bones would have to have been subject to it. Typicaly "radioctive fallout" from some sort of device, as the above post says 1950`s onwards. Sr90 replaces Calcium in the bones quite easily, in a similar way that radioactive iodine will affect the Thyroid gland (These are both typical reactant consequents of an atomic device).

It is not a natualy occuring isotope in the skeletal system, whereas carbon isotopes are, and so since records began, it would be simply a case of DNA or paper records to date this mystery corpse, at such a short time interval carbon dating would be silly/futile also

[Guest kriston]

Hi...cheers for your input.

 

A friend heard that in the UK, they identified a torso which was found on the bank of the thames by measuring the Strontium 90 in the body, this firstly enabled them to find where the person was brought up/lived.

[YT2095]

In todays day and age, Sr90 tracing`s perfectly feasible

any further back that the mid 1940`s, not a chance (unless the corpse was a early 40`s Scientist working on these devices).

Actualy, It`s a real pity they didn`t OFICIALY publish the early 1940`s mortality rates of the military "observers". most are dead now as a direcr result, their progeny isn`t much better as compared to national statistics