the Bravo crater.
instrument bunker.

Off the southern tip is an isolated concrete

The radiation levels on the island were about 15 pr/hr.
High tides must frequently wash across the island.
Consequently,
there is Little retention of radioactive materials, but

traces are still found due to the close proximity of the

tests.

Samples cf sand from the island and some bottom sediments
from the Bravo crater were taken for gamma spectral analysis.
The sand exhibited mostly *° Co, *87as, and *?°sb activity.
5° Co appeared to be responsible for abcut 60% of the expcsure

rate, **"’cs about 30% of the exposure rate, and ***sb and
other elements the remainder.

The bottom sediment saniple,

while containing all of the above isotopes, also contained
considerable 2°7 Bi activity.
The major contributcr was again
Co.
TI.

Nam

Nam, the third largest island, is alsc located in the
northwest part of the atoll.
This island exhibited yet
another variation of the atoll topcegraphy, which caused each
island to seem markedly different in appearance.
Nam has
large open areas covered with fimbrisytiis and ipomea vines.
Messerschmidia trees, unsurrounded by thick underbrush, were
able to spread out and achieve large sizes.
A great number
of birds were nesting on the island.

Radiation levels were found to vary widely on Nam.

In

addition, special problems were presented by pieces of highly
active scrap metal scattered about the island.
One piece cf
metal found half-buried near the center of the island
approached the activity of a typical laboratory ®° Co
calibration source - ~500 ur/hr at 1 meter.
it is possible
that a large number of these metal artifacts are in the
soil of this island due to its close proximity to testing
areas.

Nam.

A full set of radiation measurements was performed on
Ionization chamber measurements were made at four

widely separated locations with spectrometer measurements

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