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Pot Fallout Collections for Radiostrontium

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New York City
The New York City collection pot (exposed surface 0,82 ft=)

is maintained on the roof of the Health and Safety Laboratory
pbuilding.
1.

The following are the conditions of collection and analysis:

Samples were collected weekly from February 1954 through

December 1956.
2.

Since January 1957, samples have been collected monthly.

3.

Duplicate pots have been exposed since July 1956.

4.

Samples have been collected at the end of a calendar period
regardless of whether this coincided with the end of a period
during which precipitation occurred.
Recent results of New York City fallout, not appearing in

HASL-42, "Environmental Contamination from Weapon Tests" are
summarized in Table 1.

The cumulative data are graphically illustrated

in Figure l.
Normally the error term represents the maximum standard
error of counting but when more than two samples are analyzed for the
same period, the standard error of the mean is shown and used to

compute the cumulative error term.

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