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In this table the plus or
. deviation.

minus values are based on standard

For the purpose of comparing the radioactivity of

samples at the test site with
islands,

values for Bikini

samples from the

"off-site"

Island have been included in Table 2.

Radioisotopic Composition
The results of the semiquantitative analyses of gamma
spectra of samples collected in 1956 and 1958 are given in
Appendix Table L; results of quantitative analyses for some
of the 1958 samples are given in Table 3.

The latter table

also includes the results of the sr?° analyses.

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were not analyzed immediately after collection;

consequently

the short-lived radioisotopes which might have been present at
the time of collection are not included in the results.

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The highest levels of gross beta radioactivity
found in samples of

algae,

cucumber muscle from Ujelang,

Atolls
miles

of Energy

fishliver and muscle,
Wotho,

were
andsea

Utirik and Rongerik

(Table 2), which are only one hundred to three hundred
from the test site; however,

and milk were low,

the levels in coconut meat

even at these atolls.

Theradioactivity

of similar samples from the outlying atolls and islands of

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