TABLE 2.

Month

Gamma
24’Am
Sept.

Duplicate analyses (two 5-gram aliquots)++
from Enewetak Atoll soil field samples.

Analysis
1

Analysis
2

pCi/g

pCi/g

1.1
1.6
9.2
13
33

1.1
1.2
8.1
13
30
30
40

:;

,,

Percent Relative
Variability+ (%)

1::;
9.0
0.0
1::;
6.7

Oct.

3.0
3.1
3.3
8.6

3.0
2.8
3.5
8.7

0.0
7.2
4.2
0.8

March
and
April

< MDA
< MDA
1.72
5.46
14.25

0.25
< MDA
1.77
5.35
15.45

2.0
1.4
5.7
Median = 4.9%
Range:

Chemistry
24’Am

3.3

2.4

1::2

1:::

Oct.

0.0 to 15.7%

22.3
12.0
1.8
Median = 12.0%

25
Gross
Alpha

Oct.

1:
16
34

::
16

94.3
50.2
38.6
50.9
Median = 50.5%

Beta

Oct.

24
72
137
345

32
62
132
363

20.2
10.6
2.6
3.6

~

Median = 7.1%
‘100(s/1)
‘+From Eberline Quality Assurance Reports for September
Mike
ortiz
transmitted to R. O. Gilbert in letters from
April 21 and May 15, 1978.

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1977 through April 1978
(Eberline) dated

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