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940406-272627-15 _ QEERIAT USE ONLY

940406-171827-13

1 data appear in Chapter 3. The principal results are
contained in Chapter 4, including (1) comparison of

Explorer 4 and Injun 1 data,
(2) lifetimes 'for
artificial belts, and (3) diffusion for ARGUS. 28

801.

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references.
ORANGE BURST/radiation belts

belts

;TEAK BURST/radiation

;RADIATION BELTS/;DATA PROCESSING; EXPLORER

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110.

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PRIMARY TITLE (M)

70.
710.

PERSONAL AUTHOR (M)
CORPORATE SOURCE

WT--954
Radioactivity of open-sea plankton samples.
Project 2.7a [of] Operation Castle
(USA)

Folsom, T.R.; Jennings, F.D.; Johnson, M.W.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla,

CA

580418
371. PUB. DATE (YYMMDD)
34. CLASSIF. LEVEL TEXT
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The general relationship pertinent to the uptake
950. ABSTRACT
of fission products by marine organisms is reported in
order to form a background for more extensive tests on
Wigwam. Gross beta activities, beta absorption curves
and gamma spectra were analyzed, after identification of
the organisms. A radiochemical analysis revealed: (1)
that marine organisms concentrate activity from fallout
fission products in the water by factors of the order of
1000,

(2)

that the partition of fallout

fission products

in the ocean is profoundly influenced by biological
processes and that a purely physical model is inadequate
to predict distribution, (3) that the feeding mechanism
of the organism does not clearly determine the amount of
activity assimilated, (4) that there is evidence of
fractionation of isotopes by different organisms, and
(5)

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KEYWORD(S)

that there is

some evidence that

finely dispersed

activity is retained more or less proportionally with
the dry weight of the organism.
FISSION PRODUCTS/uptake

;

MICROORGANISMS/radiochemical analysis ;
MICROORGANISMS/radionuclide kinetics ; WIGWAM/fission

products ;CASTLE/fission products ;PLANKTON/radionuclide
kinetics ; UPTAKE;MICROORGANISMS; CASTLE; SEAWATER; BETA
PARTICLES; GAMMA RADIATION; RADIOACTIVITY; PLANKTON

i)

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DASA--532B

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PERSONAL AUTHOR (M)

CORPORATE SOURCE

S003K12

High altitude sampling problem,
Stebbins,

A.K.

III

(ed.)

Defense Atomic Support Agency,

OFFICIAL USE ONLY

a special report
Washington,

DC

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