REEse he
Meee
Soil samples analyzed for plutonium (Table 3) were generally selected from
areas with the highest levels of gamma radiation.
Exceptions were the camp
area at Bikini Island and along the runway at Eneu Island.
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Bae Soils
ond
Wins
collected in 1967, 1969, 1970 ;en€—eeka from individual soil pits,
"A
thc wer an additionnl tlechion of
however, fn 1970A_POSTsemplesere composite samples made up of 15 to 22
individual collections taken along Me rows shown in figures 3 and 4.
The
area of higher radiation at Eneu Island was one of the few locations relatively
undisturbed at Eneu and had an area of approximately fifty square feet; the
sample from this area consisted of a composite of four collections.
Seven
An iver,TY of Wash rtee
soil samples were analyzed by both SWRL and @# for
an inter-laboratory check
(Table 4).
TABLE 4
Plutonium - 239, 240 in the surface one inch of Bikini Soils Collected in
1967 and 1969.Inter-laboratory Checks
Picocuries per gram dry
Collection Site
Date
SWRL
UW
Bikini I.
Pit 1
:
1967
“Pit 5
"
Pit 6
"
Well Point 1
Well Point 2
.
"
5.1
5.1
130
117
40
- 1969
34
190
,
4
30
129 MUf5f20
:
27.
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