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and
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crater

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soils

nuclides

only

seclimerits

others

and sediments

in surface

soil

samples

rates

were

samples

were

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measured

in proportions
are obvious.

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of the

of 137 Cs

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t

quantities.

of radionuclides,

other

plutonium,

collected

are given

and individual
In general,
than

ality

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remain
1965:

the highest

are maximum

water

137

of

samples

1.

dose

Differences

at the islets

concentrations

Eneman

in Table
gamma

values.

radionuclides

in the

of gamma-ray

result

and consequent

ten.

in 1970

areas.
since

from

Fallout

concentrated
Welanderr

analyses

concentrations

surprising,
samples

spectrum

collected

in undisturbed

than

where

than

sampled

Cs relative

from periodic
leaching

away

2 and 3).

samples

for individual

in 1969

areas

low

radionuclide

areas

well-point

from

area by tidal

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meter

90~r

of radi,o–

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flooding

et al.,

co,

reservoirs

of different

radionuclides

soils

in small

60
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are the principal

and hence

to other

of more

are present

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:

at Bikini.

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The

four predominate

the

at Bikini

increments

in 1970,

are

lower

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and the

to this

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values
factors
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samples

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surface

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surface

composite

in Table

lowest

radionuclides
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are given

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1967).

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show

years

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