aptkes run‘concurrently with the squash, papaya, craband, fish Po samples: were 64.2 3,1 percent, From the amount of sy’? present ‘fo which was determined by separation of ye daughter of gr??, at ' 4a evident that only a small amount of sr could be present "(table VII). The results of the Ce My analyses are given in fable VII. The maxinten amount found was 5 x 10“6 ue in crab MUBCLE ; White | none was found in soste coconut samples, Cerium analyses wore ' made of the filtrate from strontium nitrate precipitation of the coconut, pandanus fruit, squash, crab, and flan samples listed in the above table, . The rare earths were extracted with tributyl phosphate, and cerium was separated from the trivalent - pare earthsbyceric iodate precipitation, Recovery from “apiked* samples of non-radioactive fish meal ash run con« | currently were 73 percent for coconut and pandanus fruit, and 75 percent for all the others. Determinations were made of the anount of radioiodine . “present in three landplants and two algae collected at' Rongelap Atoll on March 26, 1954. These analyses made on April at, 1954, followed the procedures as outlined by Glendenin, et al. oh PE ae ge BEB de Se _ fhe counts as obtained were corrected back to March 26, 1954, st was Present in ali five plant tlesues counted, vary- ing fron OAT percent to 0.029 percent of the total activity £ound, %: Glendenin et al.) ‘Interchange of ‘padicactive iedine with | carrier loding.” In Coryell, ¢. D, and Sugarman, N.; ” Ragteeheatcad Studies: The Fissiona_Products,|Book 3 Pp. 1629, a . pt iS eee aeey