Clearing Experiment - Bikini

o-1"
1-2"
2-3"
3-4"
4-5"
5-6"

89%
81%
88%
85%
81%
74%

1%
1%
2%
5%
5%

6%
9%
6%
8%
9%
15%

4%
10%
5%
6%
5%
6%

*Very low energy y-ray emitters such as “SS eu and ***am

are not included in the total activity.

** Includes contributions from *°°Rh, *°2Mpn, and 2°" Bi
when present.

The percentages for each isotope are relatively unchanging with depth.
Since the standard deviation in the
concentration measurements is sometimes quite large (see
Table 2), this suggests our second assumption is also
reasonable.
The percentage of the total exposure rate due to each
of these isotopes was calculated for each of these sites
using the average percentage concentration over all depths
and compared with the field spectrometer data with excellent
agreement.
These results are given in Section III in the
discussion of the Bikini Island data.
The data from the

analyses of all the soil samples obtained on the other

islands of the atoll were’ then used in a similar manner to
estimate the percentage of the average total exposure rate
around the site due to each isotope in the soil.
During the 1964 Bikini Atoll survey a number of soil
samples had also been obtained and analyzed by the University
of Washington.
None of these samples were from exactly the
same locations as the 1967 samples; however, this calculation
of percentage of total exposure rate due to each emitter was
also done for these data.
The results in general were

consistent with the 1967 results.

On islands where

137

Cs was

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