Im this table the plus or
Sos the purpose

of comparing the radioactivity of
“to

Gevistion.

minus values are based on standerd

Sanplesat the test site with
islands,

velues for Bikini

samples from the

Island have been

“off-site”

included in Table

itjio

The results cf the semiquantitative analyses of gamma
Spectra of samples collected in 1956 and 1356 are given in
Appendix Table L; results of quanticative analyses for some
of the 1958 sanples are given in Table 3.
also

includes

the

The latter table

results of the 3r20 analyses.

The samples

wece not analyzed immediately after ccllection;:

consequently

the short-lived radioisotopes which might have been oresent st
the time of collection are not inc Luded:. i che resuite.

DISCUSSION

The highest levels of gross petu radioactivity
found in samples of

cucumber muscle
Atolls

algae.

fish

from Ujelany,

(Table 2),

Wotho,

of

similar

low,

aamnles

and sea

Utirik and Rongerik

which are only cne hundred to three hundred

miles from the test site; however,
and milk were

liver and muscle,

were

even at
Fro-

th-

the levels in coconut meat

these atoll3.
=

+t

an

The

racioactivity
s

o

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