that have not yet been experienced during previous measurement periods.
Simultaneous measurements of mass loading will be made with the use
of fast-response instrumentation.
It is also planned to participate in proposed trials of clean-up
procedures for contaminated soils.

Such studies will provide a

valuable opportunity to document the influence of artificial disturbances on the resuspension of plutonium.

Such data are needed for

input to cost-benefit analyses of plutonium cleanup, particularly for
aged sources.
Additional experimental work will also continue in order to further
define and verify the tentative (but critically important) parameterization of the mass flux of suspended soil as a power function of
friction velocity with power depending upon the Soil Erodibility
Index.
More effort will be devoted to developing and publishing a useful,
general model of the resuspension process.

Part of this effort will

be to adapt a model of atmospheric transport and diffusion so that it
will be particularly useful in predicting the concentration of resuspended contaminants downwind from a localized source of any geometrical configuration.

A critical lack in the development of a general

model is an adequate description of the weathering process which
involves the attachment of deposited contaminant to host soil and its
downward migration through the soil.

Future efforts will be devoted

to modeling this process from a fundamental basis, and additional
Measurement programs at appropriate sites will also be designed to
examine this process.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The resuspension work at the Nevada Test Site is a joint effort with
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory funding provided by the Division of
Biomedical and Environmental Research, U.S. Energy Research and
Development Administration.

The Nevada Operations Office provides

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