a

Table 2.

,

Concentrations of “Ux, 69¢c, 7¥Sr, and13/Cs in Food Plants Collected on Bikini

Plant type

Island in November 1971 and March 1972*
Cotlecrion
pCi/e, dryt

Tissue

date

Lettuce

Entire

March 1972

"
Papaya #2

Froit
Seeds

March 1972
March 1972

Pandanus

Fruit

Papaya #1

Seeds

"

Fruit

"
Coconut #1

Meat

"

Milk

Coconut #3
Coconut #4
"
Coconut #5 "
Coconut

23 53

Leaves
Meat

Milk

31
14

12

NS

0,0540.03

November 1971
November 1971

3.4+1.5
1.6+1.3

NS
NS

November 1971

4.4+2.1

1971
1971
1971
1971

November 1971
November 1971
November 1971

3.941.9

XS

4,342.5

NS

160+ 1
270+ 2

720

+25

NAS

+ 3
NA

69

56

«+ 0.6

200+ 1

220

+2.2

190

+1.9
NA

110+ 0.7

0, 88+ 0,04

100+ 1

147+
100+
77+
270+

+4

NA

110+ 1

NS
NS
NS

7Usr

290% 1

7it 0.4
93+ 0.5

KS
NS
NS
NS

2.1+1.3
7.0+5.0
14 +5

320

82+ 0.4

NS

11 +4
2,5+2.0
3,041.8
15 +6

1860+10

140+ 1

NS
NS

NS

November
November
November
November

13/Cs

NS+

+2

November 1971

Milk
Fronds (old)
Fronds (new)

+3
+4

7.570.6

November 1971

Meat
Meat
Milk
Meat

0.13+0.12

March 1972

November 1971

"

Coconut #2

+2

17)

Fruit

(fibrous)

SUCo

March 1972

November 1971

(edible)

"

oUK

7.1+6.1

< .22

1
0.8
0.6
2

NA
NA
NA
NA

33+ 0.3
310+ 3
220+ 2

NA
NA
NA

“See ref. ll.
40.
60
137
The error terms for
kK,
Co, and
Cs are two-sigma, propagated, counting errors.
+
errors for Usr are one-sigma, propagated, counting errors.
‘NS = not significant. The net sample count is less than the two-sigma, propagated,
5
counting error.
NA = not analyzed,
Table 3.

Some Radionuclides in Water Samples Collected with a Large Volume Filter Sorption Bed

Collection
location

Fraction

Bravo Crater

Particulate*

(bottom)

Solubled

Liters
Sampled
3785

3785

from Bikini Atoll, May 1972*
“Co

Sl

28

+3

+8

Bravo Crater
Particulate
(surface)
Soluble
Bokdrolul Pass Particulate

3785
3785
4088

6.5+1.4
<10
6,0+7.3

Bokdrolul Pass Particulate
(flood tide) Soluble

4921
4921

2,140.7
NS

(ebb tide)

Soluble

Bikini Island

Particulate

‘(seaward reef} Soluble

Bikini Island Particulate
(lagoon)
Ocean between

4088

1620
1620

2271

Soluble
Particulate

2271
4898

Bikini Island Particulate

1893

Bikini and

Suiuble

Enewetak@

(freshwater
well)

The

:

Soluble

4698

1893

1,440.6

13/Cs

12

<14 +
< 6

NS

21 +3
54

+9

97

27

+2

NS

NS
NS

1,540.8
NS

NS
2.5+ 1.7

<2.3

NS

NS
7,741.0
NS

21 +1

+60

NS

-

NS
NS

NS

<2.9

1,840.9
NS

NS

0.764 0.38
NS
NS

NS

L.itl.1
NS
NS

NS

<7

NS

+5

8,241.4
<22
5.44+1,1

2.0+ 0.8

NS

14 +3.7

<2

<30

3.0+ 0.5

NS

NS

70

160 +11.

O.5+ 0.3
<12
NS

NS

990

+4

<20

9.6+1.3
<16
6.4+1,2

Ns

6.2+5.4

9.2+6.6
NS

NSA

<1.0

1.5+1.5

5,641.0

+1

Radionuciide concentration in pci/a
49° Eu
207Rg
ortam

NS

34

NS

+0

“See ref. ll.
Errors are two-sigma, propagated, counting errors.
'Particulate--that portion retained by che 0.3 u filter.
Ssoluble=-that portion which passes through the 0.3 u filter and is sorbed by the A1,0, beds.
ANS--not significant. The net sample count is less than the two-sigma, propagated cOufhting error

OThis sample was collected over a 6 hr period between the following positions:
164°58'0" EB to 11924'5" N by 164018'0" E,

9002332

11°29'5" by

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