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Dunning (1957).

Collections of marine organisms for radio-

biological analyses

also were made in the

western Pacific

following the Redwing(1956) and Hardtack (1958) test series.
The 1956

collection was

Foundation at Saipan,

made by the

Guam,

Ulithi,

George Vanderbilt
Yap and Palau and was

sent to the Hanford Atomic Products Operation laboratories
for analysis.

(1958).

The results have been published by Thomas et al.

Following Hardtack the

made six collections

George Vanderbilt Foundation

(at three-month intervals)

Palau and the Gulf of Siam.

at Guam,

These collections were sent to

the Laboratory of Radiation Biology for analysis.
There was also another sampling. program for radiobiological analyses made at the timeofHardtack.

A series of col-

lections of tuna

and Indian

from the

western Pacific

Oceans were made by the Japanese.

One-half of the samples,

which were obtained at the port of landing in Japan, were
sent to the Laboratory of Radiation Biology for analysis.
The analyses made by the National Institute of Health, Tokyo,
Department of Energy
have been reported by Kawabata (1960).
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studies made at the ten

one test site island
encompasses

"off-site"

shown in Figure 1,

three nuclear

islands and the
during a period which

testing programs at the

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