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Fish Samples:
Time and facilities made it impossible to
collect large numbers of fish.
Some larval fish and eggs were
represented in the plankton catches, but these were not analyzed
separately.
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Table 1 contains the results of the analyses of
the three flying fish.
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The livers of the two fish caught north-
west of Eniwetok had lower values (3200 and 6200 d/m/g) than
that of the fish caught northeast of Eniwetok (22,000 d/m/g);
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the converse was true for muscle (680 and 1000 d/m/g vs. 210
The values from the chart
record are plotted in Figure 17, line A.
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Continuous Monitoring of Water:
kK
d/m/g).
A measure of contami -
nation in the probe tank is indicated by the increase in the
readings in Eniwetok lagoon at the beginning, midpoint and end
of the survey,
These values were 2 microroentgens on June 11,9
on June 16 and 125 on June 21.
A correction for the increase
in background radiation was made.
This was based on the assump-
tion that the contamination in the probe tank rose in a stepwise
renif
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manner with an increase in background resulting from each en-
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counter with radioactivity higher than the previous background
level.
The estimated background is shown in Figure 17, line B.
The major increases in background were assumed to occur in the
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areas of stations le, 2c, 5c, 8a, 9c, and 7d.
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The background line, B, in Figure 17 was then used as the
zero line in Figure 18.
The differences between the background
values and the observed chart values were plotted and the resulting line is assumed to be a more accurate representation of
the radiation levels (Fig. 18).
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