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FINDINGS

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The similurity of ths trends of radiation intensity
and settled dust activity ie obvious from the table. Gamma
intensity should be roughly proportioned to cumilative settled
activity, on the premise that the Sointilog readings were due
entirely to rudiation from the ground = -face, but we have no
cewe* baeke for predicting radiation inteneities from fallout

AERIAL MONITORING

The flights made according tu the plan described in Chapter 1 are
mapped tc Figures 2,1 and 2.2. The radiation intensities are showm on the
maps md also, to permit identification of the ielands, in Tables 2.2 and

2.3. At places where no data are given the rates are Jess than 0.05 mr/hr.
The highest value was 1.5 mr/hr on M plua 3 at Agrihan

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in the Marianas..

Gm the basis of the decay lav usually assumed, with an exponent of minus 1.2,

the cumulative dose to the population of this poland was est'mated at 500

milliroentgens, neglecting the possibility that

rain might wash away the

active dust or concentrate it onto limited areas,

The smount washed off can-

not be guessed but the process must certainly occur and the estimate of the
dose to the general population is therefore conservative. Some such process
evidently reduced th+ radiation level on a number of islends in the lower

Mortenas from 0.5 ar/hz on M plus 3 to an undetectable amount on M plus 5.

Settled dust sampling stations had deen established at some of tha
islands included in the serial survey. ‘There were two such stations on Guan,
an island on which relatively high radiation intensities were found during
the week a“te” MIKE shot. The serial monitoring results and th. duplicate
wettled dust data for this period at Guam are listed in Table 2.1.

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TABLE 2.1
RADLATION INTEMS:9° AND SETTLED ACTIVITY AT GUAM

Casmen

Settled Dust Activit

(efor)

att.

1.0
0.7
0.5

280000
14,000

27000
1000

0.1

1600

0

100000 (12 are}

697000 (12 hrs

eGempling period was 2 hours, except where noted. Data are extrapolated
to the day of sempling.
*lo sampling during this 10 hour period,

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