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Table 14
Plutonium in Soil, Sediment and Fish Collected
at Bikini Atoll, 1969

Sample

Location

Number

Eneman

Type

Soil

239,240),

238ou

(pci/g dry)

O-1"

Yield

(%)

25500

2

25500

2

25488
25488

1
2

Eneman

25504
25504

1
2

Bikini

Soil 0-1"
(well point 3)

115.4144.9
107.444.2

-_*
-

18.0+0.5
6.9+0.2

25505
25506

1
2

Bikini

Soil 0-1"
(well point 1)

129.8t4.8
129.547.7

-

61.91+1.7
6.620, 2**

25652
25652

1
2

Nam

Crater
Sediment

66.641.8
53.0t2.4

4.5+1.0
3.5+0.8

3.3740.2
3.4410.1

25662

1

Nam

Goatfish
Viscera

13.540.4

-

12.8+0.4

25664

1

Nam

Goatfish
Viscera

29.0t1.1

-

10.7140.3

Soil 8~-9"

75.3+3.0

48.44+1.9

18.9+0.5

82.912.7

50.5+41.6

11.910.4

9.410.4
9,210.4

4.140.2
4.20.2

20.610.6
39.,1+1.1

o- = 68%
* none detectable

** portion of sample lost in processing

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