-3- from the fresh or frozen specimens, at the Eniwetok Marine Biological Laboratory. The tissues were weighed at the time of dissection and then dried. The packaged dried samples, together with data cards, were sent by air mail to the Applied Fisheries Leboratory, University of Washington, for further processing. There the dried samples were ashed at temperatures up to 550°C on stainless steel counting plates and then counted in an internal gas-flow counting chamber. The counts per plate were converted to disintegrations per minute per gram (d/m/g) of wet tissue, as of the date of collection, by correcting for sample weight, geometry, backscatter, decay. self-absorption, coincidence and (See W?-616 (UWPL-33) for a more complete discussion of these procedures. ) The decay corrections for all tissues except carapace were based on the decay rate of a soil sample collected at Belle Island the day after the Nectar shot. Decay corrections for the carapace were based on the decay rate of 879% y9° and sr89 which constituted virtually 100 per cent of its activity at the time the chemical determinations were made. factors ranged from 1.09 to 12.7. The decay correction DOE ARCHIVES The variation in amount of radioactivity for each tissue at each collection date, although great, (Appendix Table 1) was not great enough to obscure general trends in changes of radioactivity with time or differences in levels of radioactivity between tissues. The term "activity" as used here means radioactivity per unit weight.