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Table 3—-STRONTIUM-930 CONCENTRATIONS AT 34°S IN
1962 AND 1963

Altitude,
1000 ft

Sr concentration, dis/min per 16° scf
~

Total

1961
U.S.S.R.

Maximum from
55-Mt test

Starfish

February—July 1962
50
60
70
80
90
105

10— 30
60—110
60— 80
40—90
30—40
10— 20

~]
~]
*
*
*
?

*
*
*
*
*
*

September 1962
63
78
90
100

110
55
20
20

<10
*
*
?

*
*
*
*

*

December 1962

63
78

130
80

20
<10

~2
<2

*
*

105

100

30

~2

20

~1
<3
<2

*
20
30

<2
10

*
<1

10
30
30

~]
~1
<1

20
20

2
20

89

25

*

<3

*

April 1963
77
91
104

75
120
130

~2
10
40
May 1963

66
104

115
130

30
80
June 1963

67
17
86

130
620
600

30
450
500
October 1963

68
80

380
370

250
250

*Negligible.

sible to assign a considerable fraction of the ?°Sr attributedhere to the
1961 series to these later tests; and, if it was 32, all of it.
It is of interest to estimate what the major source of the debris
that was assigned to the 1961 tests might have been. The detonations

which reached into the lower stratosphere listed in the first line of

Table 1 may account for the 1961 debris below 70,000 ft at 34°S, but

they are unlikely to be the source of material observed at the higher

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