Major Descriptors:

*CORALS ~- CHEMICAL COMPOSITION;

*ENIWETOK -~-

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; *PLUTONIUM -- MICRODOSIMETRY; *PLUTONIUM -- TISSUE
DISTRIBUTION; *URANIUM -- MICRODOSIMETRY; *URANIUM -- TISSUE
DISTRIBUTION
Descriptors: ALPHA DOSIMETRY; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BIKINI; CARBONATES;
*
RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION
Broader Terms: ACTINIDES; ANIMALS; CARBON COMPOUNDS; CHEMISTRY; CNIDARIA;
DISTRIBUTION; DOSIMETRY; ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; ELEMENTS;
GEOCHEMISTRY; INVERTEBRATES; ISLANDS; MARSHALL ISLANDS; METALS; OXYGEN
,
COMPOUNDS; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS

Subject Categories: 520302*
-- Environment, Aquatic -- Radioactive
Materials Monitoring & Transport -- Aquatic Ecosystems & Food Chains -INIS

(-1987)
Subject Categories:

C21*

--

Tissue Distribution,

Toxicology & Removal of Radionuclides

10/5/959
00357886

(Item 659 from file: 103)
NTS-78-003664; ERA-03-022201;

Metabolism,

INS-78-005505; EDB-78-046514

Author(s): Colsher, C.S.;
Robison, W.L.;
Gudiksen, P.H.
Title: Evaluation of the radionuclide concentrations in soil and plants
from the 1975 terrestrial survey of Bikini and Eneu Islands
Corporate Source:
Lab.

Publication Date:

California Univ.,

21 Jan 1977

Livermore

(USA).

Lawrence Livermore

p 118

Report Number(s):
UCRL-51879(Pt.3)
Contract Number (DOE): W-7405-ENG-48
Document Type: Report

Language: English
Journal Announcement:

EDB7803

Availability: Dep. NTIS, PC A04/MF E01.
Subfile:
(NTIS);

INS
TIC

(US Atomindex input); ERA (Energy Research Abstracts);
(Technical Information Center).

Country of Origin: United States
Country of Publication: United States
Abstract: In June 1975 a radiological survey was conducted of the
terrestrial environment

of Bikini

and Eneu islands

(Bikini Atoll)

NTS

to

evaluate the potential radiation dose to the returning Bikini
population. In this report, we present measurements of the radionuclide
concentration in soil profiles and in dominant species of edible and
nonedible,

indicator plants.

The use of these data to derive

relationships to predict the plant uptake of radionuclides from soil is
described. Approximately 620 soil and vegetation samples from Bikini
and Eneu Islands were analyzed by Ge(Li) gamma spectrometry and by wet
chemistry. The predominant radionuclides in these samples were /sup

60/Co,

/sup 90/Sr,

241/Am.;

/sup 137/Cs,

/sup 239,240/Pu,

Major Descriptors: *BIKINI -- RADIATION MONITORING;
KINETICS; *SOILS -- RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION

/sup 241/Pu,

*PLANTS

--

and /sup

RADIONUCLIDE
*

Descriptors: AMERICIUM 241; CESIUM 137; COBALT 60; ENVIRONMENT; FALLOUT
DEPOSITS; FOOD; FOOD CHAINS; PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 240; PLUTONIUM
241; RADIOACTIVITY; STRONTIUM 90; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS
Broader Terms: ACTINIDE ISOTOPES; ACTINIDE NUCLEI; ALKALI METAL ISOTOPES;
ALKALINE EARTH ISOTOPES; ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; AMERICIUM ISOTOPES;
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BIOMASS;
ny
CESIUM ISOTOPES; COBALT ISOTOPES; ECOSYSTEMS; ENERGY SOURCES;
—_—
ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; EVEN-ODD NUCLEI; FALLOUT;
Cc)
HEAVY NUCLEI; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; INTERNAL CONVERSION
RADIOISOTOPES; ISLANDS; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES;
=
MARSHALL ISLANDS; MASS TRANSFER; MINUTES LIVING RADIOISOTOPES;
Cc
MONITORING; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; PLUTONIUM ISOTOPES ur>
; RADIOISOTOPES; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES; STRONTIUM ISOTOPES; YEARS
LIVING RADIOISOTOPES

Subject Categories: 510301*
-- Environment, Terrestrial -- Radioactive
Materials Monitoring & Transport -- Soil -- (-1987)
510302
-- Environment, Terrestrial -- Radioactive Materials Monitoring
& Transport -- Terrestrial Ecosystems & Food Chains -- (-1987)

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