Table 1.

SITE.

Area 11 Soil Activity Strata (Isopleths)

ISOPLETH

<“*lam cpm RANGE (FIDLER)

A

1

<5, 000

B

2
3
4

5,000-25,000
25, 000-100,000
100, 000-500, 000

C and D

2
3
4
5

5, 000-25 ,000
25, 000-100 , 000
100, 000-500, 000
>500, 000

CD OVERLAP

6

ABCD OVERLAP

1

5, 000-10, 000
<5, 000

ANALYTICAL PROGRAM

All vegetation samples were ashed and dissolved at LFE.
Upon receipt at MCL,
each solution was quantitatively transferred to a 500 ml volumetric flask and
diluted to volume.
Analyses for 238pu, 239°240p, | 24lam, and *3°U were per-

formed from aliquots of these diluted vegetation solutions. As the initial
step, a 100 ml aliquot of each vegetation solution was provided to Ge(Li) for

measurement of its “41am content.

For those solutions exhibiting less than

239°240py/24lam dpm ratio of 10.

This assumption was subsequently confirmed

100 dpm of 24*!Aam (Ge(Li) limit), alpha-PHA of traced americium samples was
required. Estimates of the plutonium levels were made by assuming a

by mass spectrometric measurement of the 2739’2"°py levels in four randomly
selected vegetation solutions.

Quantification of the *38pu and 239’ 240py in

all vegetations was achieved by alpha-PHA of 242Pu traced plutonium samples.

All uranium analyses were accomplished via mass spectrometric measurement of
233y spiked samples.
Specific activities were calculated on a dpm/gram of ash
basis using the appropriate LFE ash weights and volumetric dilution factor
corrections.

During the development of the MCL analytical program, the original NAEG uranium

analyses requirements were modified and expanded.
Initially, the uranium
analyses were to be constrained to 52 vegetation samples; 39 for measurement
of atoms ratios and 13 for quantification of 235y,
However, since mass spectrometric analyses satisfied these two analytical requirements concurrently, atom

ratios and *35u content were reported for each vegetation sample.

In addition

to this modification, the uranium analyses requirements were expanded to

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