GROSS ACTIVITY
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Table 12—Summary of Gross Beta and Gamma Activity in Birds and Eggs *
ISLAND
SAMPLE
No. oF
SaMPLES
Rongelap Atoll:
Rongelap.._.....---- Tern:
Egg shell...._.-.._..-Egg, soft tissue..._..-Gejen_....-. 2-22... Tern_____.-..--------.-Viseera....--..------..
1
1
1
1
Musele......----------
1
Tibia...---.-----------
1
Tern_....--.-.----..----
1
Musele.....----.-----Tibig.._....---.-----.
Beg shell.._.---..----.
Egg, soft tissue-_...--.
1
1
2
2
Eabelle_...... 22-2
Aiinginae Atoll:
Sifo.-..-..--....---.- Tern. __-_..--.20-------Muscle.___.-...------Viscera_...-..----...-Tibia... --..----Egg shell._..._........
Egg, soft tissue._......
Rongerik Atoll:
Eniwetak..-......-.- Tern_.....--.-----..---_
Muscle._-._.---..----_
Tibia... 222-22.
Viscera__....-.-.--..--
AVEEAGE
WEIGHT
(g)
Rapioactiviry «
Beta
(d/m/sample x 10-4) (d/m/kgX10-4)
6
33
92
101
NDA
0. 26
0.93
0.38
141
NDA
NDA
|----22---2
145
16.9
0.9
5.3
22.8
11
Gamma
(d/m/samplex10~){d/m/kg x 10-4)
0
7.9
10.1
3.3
0. 62
0.11
0.32
0. 025
10.3
3.3
3.6
0. 25
0
0. 019
0.14
0
NDA
7.8
0
1.7
12
V7
30
26
13
0.1
0. 07
NDA
0. 18
5.9
79
0
6.7
0.13
0, 027
0.13
0.3
7
116
7
11.7
7 |.------ae--7
0.31
I
6
1
33
0.38
0. 057
0. 08
NDA
NDA
0. 26
3.3
4.9
_
0
0
7.9
L7
0.43
0.14
NDA
0. 06
0.11
14.7
36.7
—_
0
10
3.3
2
92
2
16.7
2
23
Oe
1.9
0. 04
NDA
0. 05
21.0
2.3
0
—
0.9
0. 03
NDA
0, 09
9.8
me)
0
-_
‘
* Asdetermined on basis of Ui0s standards and empirical scattering and absorption corrections.
*Counted in April-May 1956.
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