NH
in the sea,
WwW
able to the biota most specifically if it's in a soluble
fF
2e3
form.
nw
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enters into the food chain of the animals that feed upon the
or the other.
This immediately changes a11 approaches of one
In the terrestrial area the fallout is avail-
In the soluble form it's picked up by the plants and
plants,
ont
I put down just a partial illustration
of the sort of fractionation that takes place in the land
0
{Blackpoard]
area,
Re
KF
of radiocnucleides, of course, are available on_the land as
Re
they fall out there.
WwW
RF
island, Cabell Island spectra,
Be
Ff
configuration of presence or absence of radionucle ides.
ww
Be
plants substantially pick up only four out of this complex
A
FR
and of the four that the plants have, the rads essentially
ON
me
concentrate too: strontium and cesium or cerium,
&
on the other hand, have essentially available, one would
Oo
assume, the same complex of radionucleides since they also
cobalt-60 and zince-65.
yn
9D
HH
OF
CO
just as an illustration let's look at it,
KF
This is part of a very complicated long table, but
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All the spectra
This is from Eniwetok.
The particular
The soil has, in 1961,this
The
The fish,
fell upon the water but the fish in the main pick up manganese,
Now, we might add to this, if we take the dominants--
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in this particular one we don't have iron-55 but in the open
24
sea iron-55, along with cobalt, at the present tim are the
25
two most dominant radionucleides,
26
Well, in a sweeping staterent of generality, which
27
is always ridiculous,but in the main the terrestrials are the
28
Soluble nucleides in soluble form, those in the sea of par-
29
ticulate form are concentrated most,
30
nucleides of the cobalt series and iron series are in par-
31
ticulate form, although the
32
through the food web more dominately than do the soluble
33
forms that are more distributed through the water,
Since the induced radtio-
finely divided form, they enter
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