Appendix D
ANALYTICAL DATA from SAMPLES of SEAWATER
lated value of 4.43 x 108 (dis/min)/liter for 1 mr/hr

Duplicate samples of sea water were furnished by the
NRDL and the SIO. At the HASL, each sample was fil-

gamma at 3 feet.

tered and the remainder evaporated.

the general magnitude of this assumption is correct.

The beta activities

However, the results do indicate that

for both particulate and salt fractions were determined
by counting.

These data were corrected for radioactive

decay on the basis of the decay curves in Reference 7.

Particulate salt separation and beta analysis were
performed on a group of depth samples supplied bv

D.1 SURFACE SAMPLES
The beta analysis, corrected to H+ 24 hours, is summarized in Tables D.1, D.2, D.3, and D.4, for Shots

Zuni, Flathead, Navajo, and Tewa.

D.2 DEPTH SAMPLES

The sampling loca-

tions were plotted on the aerial-survey isodose charts

and the gamma intensity at each station was estimated
by extrapolation between the isodose contours.

Because

Project 2.62 (SIO). The count-time corrections for
radioactive decay were made to the mean of the counting
period for all samples within a group. The data from
Shots Flathead and Navajo are summarizedin Table

D.5, and from Shot Tewa in Table D.6.
These values are plotted in Figures D.2 and D.3.
Activities below 10 dis/min are not particularly vahd,

the gamma dcose-rate values are estimated, further extrapolation may contain errors. The time of gamma

because they correspond to counting rates below the

survey and the time of sampling do not necessarily coin-

samples from Shots Flathead and Tewa are based on

cide, so the interviewing horizontal translation of the

the average of several identical samples.

water mass can introduce displacement errors.

activity for Station N-17, after Shot Navajo, is based on

The surface activity, as beta disintegration per min~

ute per liter, has been plotted against estimated gamma
dose rate in Figure D.1. With the large variation of the

statistically reliable level.

The surface activity for

The eefCface

a single sample and maynot represent the actual surface
conditions. A mixing depth of 60 meters is indicated by
this data (Figure 3.26).

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