then attributable not to soil migration but rather to plant
Other losses.

ptake and

To develop this pseudo dose rate, the follow ng equation

was used:

A(Ci/m*) = p x wef

Zz

max

a(z)dz

0

where a is the activity density in pCi/go, z is the depth in cm, p is

the soil density (1.89/cr?) and the factor of 10°78 nrovides the con2 The dose rate for cs33?
, version from pCi to Ci and from cm 2 tom‘,

. fs given by
t
4:
i

‘

4

D(R/HR) = 6.21 A(Ci/m?)

: Table 3 summarizes the comparison between the estimated and measured
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dose rate anc the.pseudo dose rate as well.

As can b P Seen, the

; estimate is a factor of about 20 higher than the measured v Tue and

i that roughly half of this difference can be accounted for b | mechanisms
| other than soil migration. This comparison indicates that pimple
estimates can be used to provide bounding upper limits and that it

might be possible to refine these estimates to within an orBer of
magnitude by correcting for soil migration.

The conditions for this

refinement would be:
a.)

that for the location of interest, there had

b.)

that the soil profiles would be similar to th

been no cleanup or major earth moving prior
to the survey and

found on undisturbed Enewetak islands receivi
fallout (such as Fig. 1409 of “Summary of Fin
chapter of NVOO-140).

Having compared dose rate estimates with survey re

ings”

its for

' Enewetak, we can now turn to those islands in the northern tarshalls
that were contaminated by fallout from shots at Bikini.
Because the estimating scheme being used requires
dose rate as input, it is important to first establish tha
Measurements were made in all cases where there was fallou
istands of interest.

DOE ARCHIVES
e one-hour
off-site
on the

lf these data are incomplete, estima jons cannot

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