Results of the radiometric analyses of the samples are presented.
Results of these analyses indicate that /sup 90/Sr and /sup 137/Cs are
predominant in the terrestrial environment and, in addition, /sup
241/Am and /sup 239/ /sup 240/Pu are also important in the soil from
Rongelap and Bikini Atols. Naturally occurring /sup 40/K is the
predominant radionuclide in marine organisms, while /sup 60/Co 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.;

Major Descriptors: *AMERICIUM 241 -- RADIATION MONITORING; *AMERICIUM 241
~- RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; *ANTIMONY 125 -- RADIATION MONITORING
; *ANTIMONY 125 -- RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; *AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS
-- RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; *CESIUM 137 -- RADIATION MONITORING; *CESIUM
137 -- RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; *COBALT 60 -- RADIATION
MONITORING; *COBALT 60 -- RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; *CRUSTACEANS
-~- RADIOACTIVITY; *EUROPIUM 155 -- RADIATION MONITORING; *EUROPIUM 155
-- RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; *FISHES -- RADIOACTIVITY; *MARSHALL
ISLANDS -- RADIATION MONITORING; *MARSHALL ISLANDS -- RADIOACTIVITY;
*MARSHALL ISLANDS -- RADIOBECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; *MARSHALL ISLANDS
-- RADIOECOLOGY; *MARSHALIL ISLANDS -- RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; *MOLLUSCS
-- RADIOACTIVITY; *PLANTS -- RADIOACTIVITY; *PLUTONIUM 239 -- RADIATION
MONITORING; *PLUTONIUM 239 -- RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; *PLUTONIUM
240 -- RADIATION MONITORING; *PLUTONIUM 240 -- RADIOECOLOGICAL
CONCENTRATION; *POTASSIUM 40 -- RADIATION MONITORING; *POTASSIUM 40 -RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; *SOILS -- RADIOACTIVITY; *STRONTIUM 90
-- RADIATION MONITORING; *STRONTIUM 90 -- RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION
; *TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS -- RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; *URANIUM 238 -RADIATION MONITORING; *URANIUM 238 -- RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION
Descriptors: COMPILED DATA; TABLES
Broader Terms: ACTINIDE ISOTOPES; ACTINIDE NUCLEI; ALKALI METAL ISOTOPES;
ALKALINE EARTH ISOTOPES; 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 FORMS;

ECOLOGICAL

CONCENTRATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES;
ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT; EUROPIUM ISOTOPES; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; EVEN-ODD
NUCLEI; HEAVY NUCLEI; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; INTERNAL CONVERSION
RADIOISOTOPES; INVERTEBRATES; ISLANDS; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES;
ISOTOPES; LIGHT NUCLEI; MASS TRANSFER; MICRONESIA; MINUTES LIVING
RADIOISOTOPES; MONITORING; NUCLEI; OCEANIA; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; ODD-ODD
NUCLEI; PLUTONIUM ISOTOPES; POTASSIUM ISOTOPES; RADIOISOTOPES; RARE
EARTH ISOTOPES; RARE EARTH NUCLEI; STRONTIUM ISOTOPES; URANIUM ISOTOPES
; VERTEBRATES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES

Subject Categories:

510301*

Materials Monitoring &

-- Environment,

Transport

--

Soil

Terrestrial -- Radioactive
--

(-1987)

510302
-- Environment, Terrestrial -- Radioactive Materials Monitoring
& Transport -- Terrestrial Ecosystems & Food Chains -- (-1987)
520302
-- Environment, Aquatic -- Radioactive Materials Monitoring &
Transport -- Aquatic Ecosystems & Food Chains -- (-1987)
560172
-- Radiation Effects -- Nuclide Kinetics & Toxicology --

Animals

560173
~-

--

(-1987)

-- Radiation Effects -- Nuclide Kinetics & Toxicology -- Plants

(-1987)

INIS Subject Categories:

C22

B31*

-- Land

-- Radionuclide Ecology

C21
-- Tissue Distribution,
Radionuclides

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Author(s):

Metabolism,

(Item 641 from file: 103)

INS-79-007169;
Nelson, V.A.

ERA-04-027871;

Toxicology & Removal of

EDB-79-044610

Sogugus

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