CONTENTS (continued) PAGE 6.4.2 6.4.3 6.4.4 6.5 Preliminary Statistical Analyses 160 Grid Location Problems Other Activities 162 162 VEGETATION 163 6.5.1 6.5.2 6.5.3 163 164 167 Vegetation in the Atoll Environment Devegetation of Island Janet Lane Cutting 6.6 PILOT SOIL REMOVAL PROJECT 170 6.7 PLOWING PHILOSOPHY AND EXPERIMENT 171 6.8 AOMON CRYPT EXPLORATION AND EXCISION 173 6.8.1 6.8.2 6.8.3 Introduction Pre-Cleanup Explorations Exeision 173 174 182 SUBSURFACE SAMPLING AND EXCSION 184 6.9.1 6.9.2 184 190 6.9 Early Programs Final Program ih. 6.10 YVONNE FIG/QUINCE EXCISION 6.10.1 6.10.2 6.10.3 6.10.4 6.11 194 Introduction 194 Follow-up Actions 198 Pre-Excision Characterization Fig/Quince Excision 194 196 DOSE ASSESSMENT AND THE FISSION PRODUCT DATABASE (FPDB) 198 6.11.1 6.11.2 6.11.3 6.11.4 198 199 200 200 Relationship Between Data Base and Dose Assessment Significant Radionuclides and Exposure Pathways FPDB Soil-Sampling Procedures FPDB Data Storage and Retrieval 6.12 SAMPLE ARCHIVING © , 200 CHAPTER SEVEN: RADIOLOGICAL CONDITION OF ISLANDS 7.1 INTRODUCTION 203 71.2 SOUTHERN SLANDS 207 7.2.1 7.2.2 7.2.3 207 208 208 7.2.4 7.2.5 7.3 David Elmer Fred Leroy “Other Southern Islands 209 210 NORTHWEST GLANDS 7.3.1 7.3.2 Alice Belle 211 xiv 211 216 £3