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

 

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.

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

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.

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