SURVEY

INFORt’lATION

Tabulations

for

the islands

of Bikini

Atoll

on the followipg

pales

will

indicate:
the

1.

background

Baird

Atomic

2,

a summary

3.

results

4.

when

islands

weicjhtinq factors

were

change
This

table

effective

exposure
initial

*Decay

1S7CS,

and ciisnosal,

in exposure

it was

decav

rate

necessary

~ittin9

assumed

by depth

as a

for the

to develop

radionuclides

is due

identified

0.62 MeY was

taken

was

from
The

from Table

tabulation,

rate
this
final

calculated

curve

of the

./
K
J

Isotopes

data

for

and

rates.

10ZmRh

from

their

Per

lozm~~

corrected

tabulation

using

Since

of Photons

factor

rate weighting

Perllllan.

the only

decay

rate.

and number

exposure

and exposure

ana that

tend to give conservative
(4)
were used to indicate
and b!onq

ene~y

taken

then

soil

ra3ionuclides

to the differential

in their

per disintegration.*
reduction

the

on the exposure

included

The

the various

but would

Connors,

by effective

that

throughout

nuclide

and ~lotted.

concentration

scheme

of each

the nuclides

energy

rate

it was

report,

of Crocker,

normalized

for 2.96 gamma

of time,

an oversimplification

effect

disintegration

removal

of the background

reduction

concentrations

The data

were

against

and,

of the ga~a

distributed

not among

a

of soil samples.

is obviously

the relative

with

RELATIONSHIP

the expected

for each

in relative

results.

was

RATE

of this

uniformly

calibrated

waste

projection

as a function

in the analysis

as measured

of time.

to estimate

For purposes

analyses

appropriate,

rates

scintillator

radiological

of samnle

CONCENTRATION-EXPOSURE

various

exposure

NE-148A

of the

function

In order

gamma

of the ccmosite

the decay

factor,

factor.

- Ledever,

Pol_!ander, and

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