TABLE 2.5 (Continued)
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Fer the purpose of extrapoiation the activity of all
samples collected auring tne mirvey was arbitrarily attributed

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Cotes Fallout after the First Thirty Daya

Ms 61,

21,00

2900
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Figures 2e7 ud Geb show the fal lout from Mb 39 to

In the Unit-uo States the average was -60 d/m/ag ft and

in the reat of the world the averare wee “0. The close agreement
@Qppears to be consistent with the idea that the active particles
had been dispersed throughout the world atmosphere, The impression
of dispersion ie reinforced by the amail range of total fallout,

from Mito M4 61, over the United Statee (Figure 2.9), and by the

fact that measurable fallout occurred, aooner or later, at avery

domestic atation and nearly every foreign station (Figure Zsl0).
2e2el, Sampling Precision

25000
7000
m—=

Data based or sanples collected after the }%sth day

therefore contain an slement of uncertainty because of the
possibility that a significant portion of the activity was due

The error in estimating fallout at a collection station

from an individual sample, as measured by tha coefficient of
variation (ratio of ateandard deviation to mean), computed from _
the firet 250 paire of settled dust samplea, is approximately 50%,

Studies of data from an earlier survey (1,) indicated that the

finding may be applied to a large region surrounding the station

without serious loss of preoision, The figure of 30% includes no
allowance for the efficiency of tre collection method or for
other sources of syatemtio error.

Although the totals shown on the maps ere more precise

shen the dete of individual samplas, they sy be influenced greatly
by exceptional rasulta, auch as the maximum caily fallout at Iwo

Jima, discuesed in Section 2e2el, above,
2e2e5

Radioactive Dust Concentration of the Air at

Tround
Vevel

The concentration of radioactive dust in the atmosphere,

as measured by counts of filtered samples, was negligible compared
to the reaults of surveys made during continental teats. The

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maximum for each atetion ie given in Table 24,

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