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Collection Site

Date

SWRL

UW

0.39

0.71

Eneu I.

Camp Blandy

1969

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URINE SPECIMENS

A single urine specimen (24 hours) was @ollected from the Trust Territory
resident at BIKINI.

Another was obtained from a team member.

These

samples were analyzed and indicated no detectable plutonium activity.

TRITIUM GROUND WATER.

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Tritium in well water is present at low concentrations; the maximum value
found was 14 pCi/ml, or 4300 tritium units, at Nam I., whereas at Bikini
-and Engu Islands the concentration was 2 pCi/ml, or approximately 600 T.U.
These values fall within the range of tritium concentrations in surface

| waters of the United States in 1966. It has been shown that there is
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approximately 10°

times more tritium in bound water than in loose water in

Since
soils at Eniwetok Atoll, \but thay there is little exchange of the bound
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water with the loose water fence] it is probable that there will be no

‘major changes in the tritium concentration of well water at Bikini Atoll.

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