Dunning (1957).
Collections of marine organisms for radio-~
biological analyses
following the Redwing
The 1956
also were made in the
(1956) and Hardtack
collection was
Foundation at Saipan,
made by the
Guam,
Ulithi,
western Pacific
(1958)
test series.
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Yap and Palau and was
sent to the Hanford Atomic Products Operation laboratories
for analysis.
(1958).
The results have been published by Thomas et al.
Following Hardtack the
made six collections
George Vanderbilt Foundation
(at three-month intervals)
Palau and the Gulf of Siam.
at Guam,
These collections were sent to:
the Laboratory of Radiation Biology for analysis.
There was also another sampling program for radiobiological analyses made at the time of Hardtack.
A series of col-
lections of tuna
and Indian
from the
western Pacific
Oceans were made by the Japanese.
One-half of the samples,
which were obtained at the port of landing in Japan, were
sent to the Laboratory of Radiation Biology for analysis.
The analyses made by the National Institute of Health, Tokyo,
have been reported by Kawabata
(1960).
The present report will be confined to the results of
the
studies made at the ten
one test site island
encompasses
"off-site"
islands and the
shown in Figure 1, during a period which
three nuclear
testing programs at the
Eniwetok