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[en] The Division of Operational Safety's portion of the Pacific Radioecology Program began in 1974 and it is a continuing program to determine the kinds and amounts of radionuclides distributed in the foods, plants, animals, and soils of the Central Pacific, especially the Marshall Islands. As part of this program, Wotje, Ailuk, Utirik, Rongelap, and Bikini tolls were visited in 1976 and samples collected. Results of the radiometric analyses of the samples are presented. Results of these analyses indicate that 90Sr and 137Cs are predominant in the terrestrial environment and, in addition, 241Am and 239240Pu are also important in the soil from Rongelap and Bikini Atols. Naturally occurring 40K is the predominant radionuclide in marine organisms, while 60Co is significant in the tridacnid clams. Amounts of radioactivity vary with distance from the Bikini test site and in relation to the fallout pattern from the March 1954 Bravo test. Thus, samples from Bikini Atol had the greatest amounts of radioactivity while the northern islands of Rongelap had slightly lower amounts. The southern islands of Rongelap Atoll and Utirik Atoll had intermediate amounts of radioactivity while Ailuk and Wotje atolls had the least radioactivity of the atolls visited
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Jan 1979; 45 p; Available from NTIS., PC A03/MF A01
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Numerical Data; Progress Report
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AMERICIUM 241, ANTIMONY 125, AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS, CESIUM 137, COBALT 60, COMPILED DATA, CRUSTACEANS, EUROPIUM 155, FISHES, INTERNAL CONVERSION RADIOISOTO, MARSHALL ISLANDS, MOLLUSCS, PLANTS, PLUTONIUM 239, PLUTONIUM 240, POTASSIUM 40, RADIATION MONITORING, RADIOACTIVITY, RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION, RADIOECOLOGY, RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION, SOILS, STRONTIUM 90, TABLES, TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS, URANIUM 238
ACTINIDE NUCLEI, ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, AMERICIUM ISOTOPES, ANIMALS, ANTIMONY ISOTOPES, AQUATIC ORGANISMS, ARTHROPODS, BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, BETA-PLUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, CESIUM ISOTOPES, COBALT ISOTOPES, DATA, DATA FORMS, ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION, ECOLOGY, ECOSYSTEMS, ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES, EUROPIUM ISOTOPES, EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI, EVEN-ODD NUCLEI, HEAVY NUCLEI, INFORMATION, INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI, INVERTEBRATES, ISLANDS, ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES, ISOTOPES, LIGHT NUCLEI, MINUTES LIVING RADIOISOTOPES, MONITORING, NUCLEI, NUMERICAL DATA, ODD-EVEN NUCLEI, ODD-ODD NUCLEI, PLUTONIUM ISOTOPES, POTASSIUM ISOTOPES, RADIOISOTOPES, RARE EARTH NUCLEI, STRONTIUM ISOTOPES, URANIUM ISOTOPES, VERTEBRATES, YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
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