30

Depth (cm)

Soil

Q-2.5
0-2.5
0-2.5
0-2.5

Site #3

Site #4 (Center of island)

Site #5

Site #6

ns

35-50

ns

ns

ns

ns

ns

OW

ns = not significant; the net sample count is less than the two-sigma counting error.

ns

25-35

12 +0.5
1.1 40.1
0.22+0.1
0.16+0.1

5.6 +0.3

ns

ns

ns

ns

ns

0.86:0.17

4.2 +0.30

2.2 40.25
0.3% 0.16

ns

ns

ns

2.0 +0.30

21 +0.7
36. ©+0.8
13. +0.5

1.1 +0.24

0.200.119

ns

+0.6

0.23+0.17

0.7640.16

0.59+0.25

4.4 +0.32

1.6 +0.33

3.2 +0.24

3.2 20.32

1.4 +0.18

241 Am

1.7 +0.2

31

2.6 +0.2

0.47+0.13

0.52+0.20

2.0 +0.27

1.0 +0.27

1.7 +0.21

1.8 +0.24

0.56+0.17

1SS5Fy

b.

ns

15-25

+0.4

+0.9

+0.7

=+0.5

(«40.4

=+0.6

7.1 +0.4

15

58

39

15

13°

31

1375

Radionuclide Concentration inpCi/g, dry*

The error values are two-sigma, propagated, counting errors for a single sample.

0.14+0.13

ns

0.28+0.08

0.84 0.14

ns

ns

0.53t0.10

ns

0.14+0.07

ns?

0.9340.13

0.34+0.11

10-5

5-10

2.5-5

0-2.5

litter

0-2.5

Site #8 (Next to Church)

#1

0-2.5

Site #7 (Edge of village)

5-10

2.5-5

0.53+0.11

0-2.5
0.70+0.132

0. 3040.07

0-2.5

Site #1 (Ocean side ridge)
Site #2

696

Rongelap Atoll, in September 1976

Sample sites along trail from church to ocean

Pit

14

a.

I.

Location

Collection

TABLE

Some Radionuclides in Soil Collected on Rongelap Island,

APPENDIX

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