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tion existierte. Zwe: Pflanzen, Guettarda und Portulaca, die nach 10 Monaten noch ungesund
waren, hatten sich nach 16 Monaten gebessert. Photographien einiger der erholten PAanzen
sind diesem Bericht beigelugt, sowie eine Besprechung der Mittel, ausser den Strahlungen, von
denen iihnlicher Schaden wir der an den Pflanzen der Korallenattolle des Pazifik berichtet
wordenist.
radioactivity in aquatic and terrestrial organisms
to many months. The results of the investigations conducted in 1946,1947,@ 1948,
1949,and 1952) indicated the need for a
study of the reinvasion or regrowth of organisms
in an area contaminated by radiation.
A study of this nature was undertaken
after a nuclear device had been detonated or
after intervening periods varying from several
(Nectar) at Eniwetok Atoll in the spring of 1954.
Facilities were made available at the Eniwetok
Marine Biological Laboratory on Elmer(Parry)
INTRODUCTION
Since the summer of 1946, the Laboratory of
Radiation Biology of the University of Washing-
ton has conducted studies at the Eniwetok
Proving Ground to evaluate the distribution of
of the atolls of the western Pacific and adjacent
areas. These studies were made either shortly
following the detonation of an atomic device
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