eo ead oy ere hEaePE Phe Rywe 1 rt The source of ©°co for the tuna must be Bikini Atoll and not worldwide fallout because we analyzed tissues from 214 tuna, including 75 yellowfin tuna, taken from the Japanese tuna fishery during 1968 and 1969, and found no 60.5 (NVO-269-7, Annual Report). In contrast, the => Fe concentrations in the dark muscle of the tuna from the Japanese fishery ranged from 3.3 to 1600 pCi/g dry, most of the values fell in the range of 101 to 500 pci/g dry. It appears, therefore, that a major amount of the >> re in the Bikini tuna is from worldwide fallout. One of the principal sources of radionuclides at Bikini is Bravo Crater in the reef adjacent to and southwest of Nam I. Figure 1 shows a gamma-ray spectrum of sediment taken from a depth of 160 feet. Clearly, 0 6 Co and 20755 predominate among the gamma emitters. In most soils, 137645 is the most abundant radionuclide. An intermediate condition exists at the southwestern end of Eneman I., where a low area is occasionally overwashed by seawater, and at the high tide line, where the 137K. is being leached from the soil. The retention of 6046 and 20754 by the sediments is reflected in the fact that the bottom-feeding goat- fish in the vicinity of the craters contain ten times ~~ more 60. than the herbivorous convict surgeonfish and plankton feeding mullet. However, some 6006 is being transported eastward by the bottom current in the lagoon either in solution or associated with fine (colloidal?) particles, because the difference in 6006 con- tent between convict surgeonfish and mullet in the vicinity of Bravo Crater and 16 miles eastward near Bikini I. 5002458 is only by a factor less than two. ot Eneray