RADIOLOGICAL CLEANUP OF ENEWETAK ATOLL
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FIGURE 7-8. ENJEBI PLOW X SITES.
On 13 June 1978, Dr. Chester Francis, of the Oak Ridge National
Laboratory (and a memberof the Bair Committee), and Dr. Rollin Jones,
of the University of Hawaii, arrived at Enewetak to conduct the
experiment.® The area identified as X-1 was selected and became known
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simply as the Plow-X area. Extensive radiological measurements were
made to characterize the distribution of radionuclides. Each 25-by-25meter area was measured with the in situ van while soil profiles were
collected down to 50 centimeters at four locations and to ground wateror
bedrock at one other (Figure 7-9). IMP results showed the area to be
contaminated from 49 to 109 pCi/g transuranics over the plot with an
average of 71.5 pCi/g. Surface soil samples gave a range of 42 to 208 pCi/g