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.

|

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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