Felicia

O.1955-1

This manikin, given the name « Felicia, » was produced in 1955 for Marshall Brucer at the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies (ORINS), now known as Oak Ridge Associated Universities. The manikin’s purpose was to help evaluate the equipment used at medical facilities to measure the uptake of iodine-131 by a patient’s thyroid. The condition where too much iodine is absorbed is known as hyperthyroidism, the condition where too little iodine is absorbed is hypothyroidism, and a thyroid that absorbs just the right amount of iodine is a euthyroid.

X-10

M.1965-1

Iode 131, carbone 14, phosphore 32, le réacteur X 10 fournit jusquen 1963 toutes sortes d’isotopes pour le traitement des cancers. Il est classé monument historique en 1965. Pendant la guerre, dans le cadre du projet Manhattan, il avait livré au laboratoire le plutonium des bombes.