Materials Monitoring & Transport -560172

(-1987)

--

Animals

INIS Subject Categories: B32*

C21

(1989)

-- Radiation Effects -- Nuclide Kinetics & Toxicology --- Water

-- Tissue Distribution, Metabolism, Toxicology & Removal of

Radionuclides

10/5/979

00219142

.

103)

(Item 679 from file:

INS-77-006650; ERA-02-027408; EDB-77-056950

/

Title: Concentrations and physical--chemical states of /sup 55/Fe in Bikini
Atoll Lagoon

Author(s): Schell, W.R.; Cushing, C.E. Jr.

(ed.)

Affiliation: Univ. of Washington, Seattle
Title: Radioecology and energy resources
Conference Title: 4. national symposium on radioecology
Conference Location: Corvallis, OR, USA
Conference Date:
Publisher:
Halsted Press,New York

Publication Date: 1976
Contract Number

(DOE):

12 May 1975

p 271-276

AT(45-1)-2225-T18

Note: CONF-750503-Document Type: Analytic of a Book;
Language: English

Conference literature

Journal Announcement: EDB7704
Subfile:
ERA
(Energy Research Abstracts);
(Technical Information Center).

INS

(US Atomindex input);

TIC

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Publication: United States
Abstract: Iron-55 is a neutron-induced radionuclide produced in large
quantities from ferrous materials in the immediate vicinity of a

nuclear detonation. Bikini Atoll Lagoon is labeled at the present time
with /sup 55/Fe at concentrations which are greater than for any of the
remaining bomb-produced radionuclides; the concentrations found in the
water are 120 to 680 pCi/m/sup 3/ and are estimated to be partitioned
into 45 percent particulate (>0.3 ..mu..m), 45 percent colloidal and 10
percent soluble. The particulate and soluble fractions were determined
by use of a Battelle Large Volume Water Sampler. The sediments in the

lagoon and craters appear to be the sources of /sup 55/Fe and other

radionuclides in the lagoon water.

In spite of a 70-fold or greater

decrease in radioactivity by decay since the last nuclear detonations
at Bikini in 1958,

some sediment contain concentrations of /sup 55/Fe

as great as 300 pCi/g, dry weight.;

Subject Categories:

520300*

Materials Monitoring &

INIS Subject Categories:
10/5/980

-- Environment,

Transport

B32*

--

-- Water

(Item 680 from file:

20040178

Major Descriptors: *BIKINI -- CONTAMINATION; *BIKINI -- RADIATION
MONITORING; *IRON 55 -- RADIATION MONITORING; *IRON 55 -RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; *LAKES -- CONTAMINATION; *LAKES -RADIATION MONITORING; *SEDIMENTS ~- CONTAMINATION; *SEDIMENTS -RADIATION MONITORING
Descriptors: CHEMICAL STATE; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS
Broader Terms: BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; ELECTRON
CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES; EVEN-ODD NUCLEI; EXPLOSIONS; INTERMEDIATE MASS
NUCLEI; IRON ISOTOPES; ISLANDS; ISOTOPES; MARSHALL ISLANDS; MONITORING;
NUCLEI; RADIOISOTOPES; SURFACE WATERS; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES

Aquatic -- Radioactive

(1989)

103)

00219136

INS-77-006644; ERA-02-027402; EDB-77-056944

Author(s):

Nevissi,

Title: Efficiency of a large volume water sampler for some radionuclides in
salt and fresh water

Affiliation:

Univ.

A.;

Schell,

of Washington,

W.R.;

Cushing,

Seattle

C.E.

Jr.

(ed.)

Title: Radioecology and energy resources
(/sup 210/Po, /sup 207/Bi,
155/Eu, /sup 241/Am, /sup 239/Pu, /sup 240/Pu, /sup 60/Co)
Conference Title: 4. national symposium on radioecology
Conference Location: Corvallis, OR, USA
Publisher:
Halsted Press,New York

Conference Date:

12 May 1975

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