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given in Table 3 are based :ipon the calculated activity of the samples
at the time of collection.

Levels of strontium-90

The results of the Sr90 determinations of plankton and a shrimp
sample are given in Table 4.

The only pre- Wahoo plankton samples

that contained detectable amounts of Sr9° were samples P-6 and P-7,

collected on the same day the Cactus device was detonated.
P-8 and P-12,

Samples

collected 19 to 80 hours later, contained no gr90,

The plankton samples collected after Wahoo, however,

contained

levels of Sr9° that comprised from 0.0001 per cent to 0.04 per cent
of the total beta radioactivity.
anew source of Sr99

available

Apparently the Wahoo detonation made
to the plankton,

Fish and other organisms
Eight mid-water trawls were made during the survey, one of which
was lost during the recovery operation.

The following organisms were

collected most frequently: euphausids, lantern fish, crab larvae,
miscellaneous macroplankton species.

were obtained in two hauls.

and

Eel larvae and small squid

Silversides (fish of the family Atherinidae)

and hatchet fish (Sternoptychidae) were obtained only once.
The gross beta radioactivity of the organisms collected in the midwater trawlis givenin Table 5.

There was no detectable radioactivity

in the samples collected before Wahoo (T-1 to T-4),

Post-Wahoo

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