PRIORITY
TEN2

MSG807

PAGE 02

073

0110

EACH SET OF SAMPLES wILL ALSO HAVE DUPLICATE SAMPLES (APPROX.
20%) PROCESSED TO CHECK FOR PRECISION. ONE SAMPLE OUT OF
EVERY SHIPMENT WILL BE PROCESSED THROUGH THE LONG INGROWTH

DETERMINATION OF SR=-90 AND COMPARED TO THE 48& HOUR METHOD

FOR DETERMINING SR=90, TEN PERCENT OF DUPLICATES WILL HAVE

Y-88 USED TO MEASURE YTTRIUM YIELD AND WILL BE COMPARED TO
YTTPIUM GRAVIMETRIC YIELD DETERMINATION. JANET STANDARD SOIL
WILL BE PROCESSED

WITH EACH SHIPMENT OF

SAMPLES TO DETERMINE

THE ACCURACY OF THE RESULTS. ONE OUT OF EVERY 20 SAMPLES IS
RECOUNTED TO VERIFY THE Y-99 DECAY.
*

PAGE 3 RHEGNVOO062 UNCLASSIFIED/N ON W D/NARR
Be EXTERNAL
QUALITY CONTROL = EXTERNAL WILL BE BASED ON STANDARD SOIL
SAMPLES WHICH WILL BE SEIT OUT TO VARIOUS LABORATORIES SUCH
AS EPA AND LIVERMORE. THE RESULTS OF THIS EXTERNAL @C PROGRAM
WILL PROVIDE EIC VERIFICATION OF ITS INTERNAL QUALITY CONTROL
PROGRAM,
OTHER RELATED EXTERNAL QUALITY CONTROL PROGRAMS WHICH EIC
IS PARTICIPATING IN ARE THE EPA QUALITY CONTROL CPOSS CHECK
STANDARDS AND THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION
CROSS CHECK STANDARDS.
Ve
MATA FLOW
Ae
EIC FUNCTIONS
le ONT ISLAHD LABORATORY
ALL FISSION PRODUCT SAMPLES TAKEN WILL BE ENTERED INTO

*

THE EIC RAD LABORATORY DATA BASE ON ENEWETAK DURING
PROCESSING. THE REPORTED ANALYSIS AND RESULTS WILL INCLUDE
AT LEAST THE FOLLOWING FOR EACH SAMPLE?
HELIER DATA: ISLANDe LOCATION, DATE AND HOUR OF SAMPLE,
PEE THs SAVPLE TYPE, 39 CHARACTERS OF MISC. INFORMATION

PAGE 4 RHEGNVOOU62 UNCLASSIFIED/™" G Now D/NARR

WHICH WILL INCLUDE SAMPLE COLLECTION CIRCUMSTANCES?
COLLECTOP St NAME, £NT LAPORATOPY SAMPLE IM NUMREP,
GAMMA SPECTRUMSs fp POUR CHANNEL SPECTRUM COVERING 40 1900 KEV WITH CALIBRATION naTAr

OETECTOR GEOMETRY?

AND

LATEST RACKGROUND SPECTRUM FILE.
FESULTS! DaTaA RLOCK TC INCLUDE RESULTS OF WET CHEMISTRY

Select target paragraph3