Table 1.
Summary of Environmental Studies Dealing With Plutonium Uptake in Small Mammal Populations.
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| Sample
X Pu
nCi/g dry wt,
Soil
4.6 X 1072
Vegetation
$mall Mammals
Carcass
4.6 X 10
Soil
3.1 xX 107%
Vegetation
Small Manmals
c6E
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Carcass
7.1 X% 10
4.6 X 10
1.4 XK 10
1.2 X 10.2
4.1 X 10%
Carcass
1976
Savannah River
-1
1.4 X 10
9.7 X10
2
6.5 XK 10
Johnson, 1973
Trinity Site
°
8.6 X 10-5
Soil
Hide
-2
Hakonson and
“5
2.9 % 10
Vegetation
Small Mammals
GI Tract
Reference
.
3.0 X 10
Soil
X Pu
Tissue / Vegetation
Ratio
McLendon et al.,
-7
Vegetation
$mall Mammals
GI Tract
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Carcass
Table 2.
X Pu
Tissue /Soil
Ratio
Little, 1976
Rocky Flats
3
7.0 X 10_5
1.5 X 1013
8.6 X 10
1.0 KX 10
-2
-1
2.5 X 10
Little, 1976
5.6 X 10
Rocky Flats
3
2.2 X 10;
2.6 X 10-5
7-3 X10
1.8 K 10
1
4
1.3 X 10
IL
‘
of NAEG Intensive Study Area 1 1-c,
Plutonium Concentrations in Resident Small Mammals
NTS (Moor et ai., 1976).
Sample
High Activity Strata*
Soil
Vegetation
Small Mammals
GI Tract
Carcass
C6E
Low Activity Strata**
Soil
Vegetat iont
Small Mammals
X Pu
aci/g dry wt
.
4.9 % 10
-2
Carcass
Dipodomys spp.
Hide
GI Tract
Carcass
5.2 +0.3
6.741.3
6.8 X 10
“4
3 .5
X10.
9.2 + 1.6
o
5.1 X 10
Lx
6.0 + 0.3
5.2 20.2
-2
Ws,
-3
1.9 ¥ 10
3.
7X 10°
°
a . ton
'
1.5
x
10
-1
2.1
x
10
°
3.2 x tee
1.0
-3
3.3 X 10
*>25,000 CPM 2“1am based on FIDLER Surveys.
#%<25,000 CPM 241Am based on FIDLER Surveys.
s Pu/Am
X + SE
6.0 + 0.3
1.5 x 10.)
Carcass
Gi Tract
Ratio
o
2.9 x 10
Hide
Ti ssue Vegetation
+1
1.4 X10
ne x tot
Perognathus Longimembris
x is 1
Tissue/Sol
Ratio
7.2 X 10,
Hide
GI Tract
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4.6 X 10
73
-5
Rommey e¢ al,, 1975.
+Values calculated from data presented by
1.1 xX 10°
2.4 X 10°
.
3
1
3
6.3 + 0.6
6.2 + 0.3
7.2 41.2
3.4 + 0.7
6.2 £ 0.2
6.5 20.4
5.1 + 1.0
6.7 + 0.2
5.8 £ 0.7