AC AESS ntroductio The following copies of tables, graphs, correspondence and reports of the Laboratory of Radiation Biology, University of Washington, have been brought together and placed in one folder for the purpose of providing the current available information on the radioactivity of the plants and animale at Rongelap. These data are preliminary im nature and should not be used for publication without further refinement and review. Essentially the data provided herewith are the results of observations and the analysis of aamples from collections aade in July, 19357 end March and September, 1953. In some instances information from earlier surveys have been included but moat of the results of surveys in 1954, 55 and 56 heve been reported in UWFL-42 and 43 and in Dr. Dunning‘'s 1956 report of the radiological conditions in the Marshall Islands. The information has been grouped into twelve sections and an index to each section is provided. For some groups of organiome e brief, concise table summarizing the results for ali years hes been prepared, e.g. the table on page 20 and on page 69. Similar tables are to be prepared for 411 major groups of data and to these basic tables the results of future surveys will be added as wall as the work that has not yet been completed from past surveys. Two sete of data have been prepared. The OWFL reports are not included in either set and the descriptive information about the soil profiles is included in only one of the sets. US DOE ARCHIVES 326 U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION RG Doce HISTORIAN (08M) Collection Box Folder 2/16/537 As ~i- BEST COPY AVAILABLE —//32 3379 ##_ 277 Y ARCHIVESLn | Ow