-ll-
In this table the plus or
deviation.
minus values are based on standard
For the purpose of comparing the radioactivity of
samples at the test site with
islands,
values
samplea from the
‘off-site"
for Bikini Island have been included in Table 2,
Radioisotopic Composition
The results of the semiquantitative analyses of gamma
spectra of samples collected in 1956 and 1958 are given in
Appendix Table L;
results of quantitative analyses
of the 1958 samples are given in Table 3.
for some
The latter table”
also includes the results of the sr 20 analyses.
The samples |
were not analyzed immediately after collection;
consequently
the short-lived radioisotopes which might have been present at
the time of collection are not included in the results.
DISCUSSION
The highest levels of gross beta radioactivity
found in samples of
algae,
fish liver and muscle,
cucumber muscle from Ujelang, Wotho,
Atolls
(Table 2),
and sea
Utirik and Rongerik
.
DOE ARCHIVES
which are only one hundred to three hundred
miles from the tegt site; however,
and milk were low,
were
the levels in coconut meat
even at these atolls.
The radioactivity
of similar samples from the outlying atolls and islands of
iw