The data from the Balloon facility of Area 5 and the T-1 site of Area 1 contain

However, these represent such a small
many plutonium concentration numbers.
fraction of the total area of these sites that again, no plutonium distribution
can possibly be estimated. However, an upper limit to the plutonium inventory
can be estimated.
The data from the Small Boy site of Area 5 include a good fraction with plutonium concentrations. However, these concentrations vary considerably between

adjacent sample locations, and it is not clear if these data can be used for

more than determining an upper limit of the inventory for this site.

Sampling in Area 4 had been terminated until evaluations of the usefulness of
this sampling approach can be made. Area 4 data have not as yet been examined
to determine usefulness.
Current efforts of the PIDP studies are being directed at the evaluation of
the program's sampling and analysis procedures, as well as quantification of
the plutonium in the sites sampled to date.

CONCLUSIONS

Although thousands of soil samples have been taken, and sampling has proceeded
from site to site and area to area, the current data are not sufficient to
estimate distribution of plutonium for more than one or two of these sites.
A limit for maximum plutonium inventory for each site can be made, but this
would probably not be much more accurate than a mass balance on the original
device.
In order to estimate both plutonium distribution and inventory for
all sites sampled to date, most of the soil samples will need to be analyzed
for plutonium by wet chemistry, or by Ge(Li) scanning with more sensitive
instruments (Pu inferred from Am-241).
The only other alternatives are to
resample by some more sensitive procedure, or to infer plutonium concentration
from the fission product data.
In the latter case, plutonium inferrence from
Cs-137 does show promise.

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