Full Expanded ID
JGC.17.346
Extent
2 pamphlets, 8.5" x 3.625" (closed)
Scope and Content
Two pamphlets from the United States Transuranium and Uranium Registries (USTUR), located at Washington State University, Richland, WA. As noted in the pamphlets, this, and specifically the National Human Radiobiology Tissue Repository (NHRTR) which is a part of the USTUR, is a "centralized facility for the storage of tissues, solutions, histopathology slides, tissue blocks, and related materials from persons... with documented intakes of radium, americium, plutonium, uranium, or other radioactive elements."
James Acord has written on the cover of the blue pamphlet: "Karen Gay Silkwood (19 Feb 1946 – 13 Nov 1974) and I, J. L. Acord (1974 – ?) both have hard and soft tissue in here (my little finger and Karen's femur, lung, and brain.[)]"