culate the estimated cesium that came from the Nevada Test Site, we can go
back to our standard source term calculations and we can, indeed, calculate
in a reasonable way the short-lived radionuclides that came with the cesium
that were responsible for the dose, and, again, just to emphasize, it's the
short-lived radionuclides that are responsible for the dose

and not the

cesium. The cesium is our track of what's still there and we can measure
with contemporary measurements.

Once we know Number 2, we can then cal-

culate Numbers 3 and 4 with our standard methodologies.

"The next viewgraph (LRA-43)

indicates the two methods that EML has

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come up with and successfully demonstrated in Utah.

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basis of the current measurements, the total cesium that's in the soil now;

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and if we have a reasonable idea of when it got there, we can, of course,

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calculate backward how much was there originally.

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that global cesium primarily comes down with rainfall and that if we do

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know

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equation that EML has developed to estimate the global; and then the cesium

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that

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global.

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deposition

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-239.

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the

rainfall

came

from

at

Nevada

a particular

is

location,

simply the

If we know, on the

The first method assumes

we

difference

can

use

between

a regression

the

total

and

The other method is based upon current measurements of plutonium
as well

as

the cesium-137 and the ratio of plutonium-240 to

The next viewgraph (LRA-44) is an indication of why that ratio should

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be different for global

fallout

as opposed

to that that came from the

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Nevada Test Site,

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the bombardment on uranium-238.

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the more plutonium-239 is created from uranium; and at the same time if you

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have created plutonium-239, you leave it in the reactor, and you eventually

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build up levels of plutonium-240 by two different methodologies.

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of plutonium-240 jis a reflection of the neutron flux that the plutonium has

and, basically, plutonium-239 is made in reactors with
The longer you leave it in the reactor,

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The level

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