Table 5. Summary of wet-chemistry analyses. Sample type Number of samples Bikini soil 346° Nuclides analyzed re (10), 295) (al1), 7 >8pu (30), 2395240, (ain), **tpu (259), 74 am (47). ? Enéu soil é 122° 905. (all), 239,240, (all), 241o (56), 24 (15). Bikini vegetation 96 re (4), Oni (4), 728r (ali), 243m (4), 239,240, (273), 74pu (15), 78tam (20). Eneu vegetation 31 06, (all), 239,240, (all), 24]an (2). Bikini animal 10 re (2), O3N4 (2), 90. (all), Iolo (2), 239,240... (aii), 74 sm (3). a . Total includes 13 samples where duplicate soil samples were analyzed. Total includes 4 samples where duplicate soil samples were analyzed. was used to determine the 241 4 Am and toden concentrations. For Iron-55 was isolated by passing the working solution, containing coralline soil and animal tissue, iron carrier, through a Dowex 1-X8 these aliquots were nominally 5 g. anion column (NO, form), precipitation A smaller aliquot of approximately of Fe(OH) , with NH, OH, adsorption 3 g was taken from vegetation samples. and elution from a Dowex 1-X8 column In all cases, samples were ashed at (Cl form), and final mounting by 950°C for 8h as the initial step electrodeposition. in the chemical dissolution. aliquot of each sample was ashed The A separate MCL chemistry scheme for the deter- and dissolved for elemental analysis mination of of iron by atomic absorption Oy and Pu from coralline soils, vegetation, and animal tissue spectroscopy. is outlined in Table 6. required to provide corrections to ~10- 9010052 peer: Paes nemap esata 202 rtd : These analyses were