24

Subsequently
soil,

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Rongelap

distance

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locations

0.9

soil

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the

took

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12;

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had

work

significantly.

have

and

testes

whose

averages

the

cesium-137,
a bone
very

some

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at

one

a

was

aerial

which

is

long

half-lives

and

3 #l).

20 scattered

(picocuries/gram)
7.1;

sPent

seeker;

(Table

from

and

time

cruise

function

which

samples

which
to

obtain

time

The

primary

four:

soil

1).

to

for

plutonium-239,-240,

0-10

cm

2.6;

#2).

provided
from

Radiations

human body

liver

added
“as

of

that

strontium-90,

3

emanated

Part

strontiurn-90,

body;

contamination

Radiations

external

were

by bone,

group

cesium-137,

americium-241,

entering

the

ship
.

was
atoll

9 islands,

terrestrial

with

each

1982,

and whose

the

bound

on Rongelap

were:

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offshore,

dealt

for

prosram
at

al,

and americium-241,

The Liverrnore

to

from

throughout

are

et

7 days

restricted

plutonium-239.-24O

ways.

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radionuclides

distributed

This

samples

fish

permitted

reconnaissance,

depth

and

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considerable

which

Laboratory

permit”

Atoll

was Rongelap.

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vegetation

facilities
at

the

were

the

that

the

basis

for

or

standing

ground
emanated

responsible

for

from

food

internal

hwan

exposure

vegetation
and water
dose.

in

two

leading
after

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