e

the greatest likelihood of the presence of plutonium.

The

values given in Table 14, therefore, probably are maximum values
for each type of sample.

The ratios of

239,240

Pu

238

to

Pu.

approach 2:1 at Eniman I. and are about 15:1 in Bravo Crater.

Bikini I. soils contained no detectable
.

.

Pu of the samples

The presence of 239,240), and 20755 in goatfish viscera

is consistent and probably results
.

Pu, although they

239,240

contained the highest concentration of
analyzed.

238

.

,

from direct ingestion of fine

.

particles of sediment during feeding.

The absence of

238

~

.

“Pu in

goatfish viscera as compared with the sediment merely reflects
a low concentration of this radionuclide,

below the

limits of

Getection.

Although none of the 1969 samples were analyzed for the
X-ray emitter 6 Ni,

this radionuclide was found in concentrations

of 80 d/m/g dry weight in Bravo Crater sediment collected in

1967

(Beasley and Held,

1969).

Nickel-63 is of particular interest

as a tracer since it has a half-life of 92 years.
the
fore

.
63_,
clam kidney accumulates
Ni,
an

.
60
as it does
Co,

ce of
indicator organism for the presen

Another long-lived radionuclide,

In addition,
:
and is there-

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Ag, with a half-life

of approximately 100 years, has been identified for the first
time among the radionuclides at Bikini.

This radionuclide was

detected from the gamma-ray spectrum of the hepatopancreas of

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