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INDEX
Diego Garcia Island
tritium concentrations in 1962 and
1963, 659
Diet
of cattle, effect on Cs content in milk,
897, 902 —
effects on absorption of alkaline earths,
900
human,
human,
human,
human,
cesium intake estimation, 902
137Cs content in Chicago, 787-88
contamination variations, 902-3
radioisotope intake in U. S.,
877-94
human, Sr content in Argentina, 854-54
human, 9Sr content in U. S. cities,
Sedan burst fallout field, 761
Drevinsky, P. J.
“Size and Vertical Distributions of
Stratospheric Radioactive Aerosols’’,
158-82
Droplets
coalescence, 282-83, 323, 327
elastic collisions, 323
isotopic exchange with environment, 682
Drums
sampling of Sedan and Small Boy
shots, 85
Dust
wetting kinetics, 281-300
737, 739-40
Rongelap, human retention of 13?Cs and
Dye
particles of, charging at low pressures,
260-68
stratospheric transport studies, 374-76,
Ecology
radioisotope transfer routes, 759-60
Economic factors
effect on %Sr intake with diet in U. S.,
881-84
Ecuador
Sr from, 743-57
Rongelap Islanders, 898-99
Diffusion
fission products in fused silicates, 13-14
mass transfer in stratosphere, 396-400
nuclear debris, 12-17, 19-21
to rotating disks, theory of, 223-24
387
Dingle, A. Nelson
‘*Air Cleansing by Convective Storms”’,
566-81
Discrimination factors
in humans, 737, 739-40, 857-58, 898
Disks
rotating, convective diffusion
theory, 223-24
Dispersion
atmospheric, prediction of, 374-76
Dominic I Operation
barium-140 sampling, 488-89
cadmium-109 tracer studies, 405-8
cloud sampling at various heights, 629-45
estimated amount of debris, 504
particles from, physical characteristics
of, 98-107
radiochemical fractionation of particles,
108-18
stratospheric aerosol sampling, 161-62
stratospheric distribution of debris,
302-22
Dose (radiation)
contributions of specific fission products,
31, 33
effects of fractionation on, 8
environmental, from deposited fission
products, 233-34
from fission products of 2%U, 28, 32
to human bone from incorporated Sr,
740-41
to humans from hypothetical milk
contamination incident, 779
Small Boy burst studies, 47-8
Dosimetry
Dominic I clouds, 629, 632, 634-38
environmental radiation from
deposited fission products, 233-44
nuclear debris, 23-33
E
air sampling, 479, 482, 484, 487, 619-22
Edmonton, Canada
tritium concentrations since 1961, 65556, 661, 672
Eggs
consumption in U. S. diets, 880
strontium-90 content of, in Argentina,
851-53
80th Meridian Air Sampling Program,
477-94
changes under HASL administration,
616-18
Electric charge
effect on droplet coalescence, 281-300,
323, 327
measurement for particles, 260,
268, 269, 271-80
production on particles, 260-68, 279,
325-26
Electrolysis
water samples containing tritium, 647-48
Electron microscopy
particles collected with rotating
disk sampler, 226
particle size measurements, 269, 270
stratospheric particles, 134, 138,
141-42
stratospheric sampling, 135~38
Elk
sodium-22 content, 219
Energy
distribution of, in atmosphere, 394-96
England
strontium-89/%0Sr ratios in rain, 607
surface air radioactivity, compared with
Argonne, Il., 501-2, 505
Enrico Fermi Atomic Power Plant
environmental survey, 728
Entebbe, Uganda
tritium monitoring, 652, 671, 672