total estimates of 0.0084 g 234u, 0.48 g 235u, 0.0025 g 236u, and 3.0 g 238y
for Area ll, Site A.

Comparison of the vegetation and soil inventory of the

235y source material (Table 6, last column) indicates that a greater portion

of the activity deposited farther out from ground zero is on the vegetation.
Here again, as mentioned above for plutonium data in Table 3, we apparently
are still seeing evidence, at this point in time, of the original partitioning
which occurred during fallout deposition, wherein the mean fallout particle
size decreased with increasing distance from ground zero.
The resuspendable

source material consists of a limited size range; consequently, these small

particles contribute less activity in proportion to the total amount of contamination present in the soil at points nearer to ground zero.
Based upon the data now available for 235y and 2381, a comparison of the

vegetation and soil inventory estimates for Area 11, Site A (Table 6, last

column), shows that the contamination attributable to vegetation represents an
insignificant portion of that which is present in surface (0-5 em) soil.
Again we may conclude that less than one-thousandth of the uranium activity
present is potentially available to on-site grazing animals via the vegetation

transport route.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Work was conducted under Contract E(04-1) GEN-12 between the United States

Energy Research and Development Administration and the University of California.
Supplemental support for sample preparation and analysis was funded by the
Nevada Applied Ecology Group, USERDA Nevada Operations Office.

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