a
Table 2.
,
Concentrations of “Ux, 69¢c, 7¥Sr, and13/Cs in Food Plants Collected on Bikini
Plant type
Island in November 1971 and March 1972*
Cotlecrion
pCi/e, dryt
Tissue
date
Lettuce
Entire
March 1972
"
Papaya #2
Froit
Seeds
March 1972
March 1972
Pandanus
Fruit
Papaya #1
Seeds
"
Fruit
"
Coconut #1
Meat
"
Milk
Coconut #3
Coconut #4
"
Coconut #5 "
Coconut
23 53
Leaves
Meat
Milk
31
14
12
NS
0,0540.03
November 1971
November 1971
3.4+1.5
1.6+1.3
NS
NS
November 1971
4.4+2.1
1971
1971
1971
1971
November 1971
November 1971
November 1971
3.941.9
XS
4,342.5
NS
160+ 1
270+ 2
720
+25
NAS
+ 3
NA
69
56
«+ 0.6
200+ 1
220
+2.2
190
+1.9
NA
110+ 0.7
0, 88+ 0,04
100+ 1
147+
100+
77+
270+
+4
NA
110+ 1
NS
NS
NS
7Usr
290% 1
7it 0.4
93+ 0.5
KS
NS
NS
NS
2.1+1.3
7.0+5.0
14 +5
320
82+ 0.4
NS
11 +4
2,5+2.0
3,041.8
15 +6
1860+10
140+ 1
NS
NS
NS
November
November
November
November
13/Cs
NS+
+2
November 1971
Milk
Fronds (old)
Fronds (new)
+3
+4
7.570.6
November 1971
Meat
Meat
Milk
Meat
0.13+0.12
March 1972
November 1971
"
Coconut #2
+2
17)
Fruit
(fibrous)
SUCo
March 1972
November 1971
(edible)
"
oUK
7.1+6.1
< .22
1
0.8
0.6
2
NA
NA
NA
NA
33+ 0.3
310+ 3
220+ 2
NA
NA
NA
“See ref. ll.
40.
60
137
The error terms for
kK,
Co, and
Cs are two-sigma, propagated, counting errors.
+
errors for Usr are one-sigma, propagated, counting errors.
‘NS = not significant. The net sample count is less than the two-sigma, propagated,
5
counting error.
NA = not analyzed,
Table 3.
Some Radionuclides in Water Samples Collected with a Large Volume Filter Sorption Bed
Collection
location
Fraction
Bravo Crater
Particulate*
(bottom)
Solubled
Liters
Sampled
3785
3785
from Bikini Atoll, May 1972*
“Co
Sl
28
+3
+8
Bravo Crater
Particulate
(surface)
Soluble
Bokdrolul Pass Particulate
3785
3785
4088
6.5+1.4
<10
6,0+7.3
Bokdrolul Pass Particulate
(flood tide) Soluble
4921
4921
2,140.7
NS
(ebb tide)
Soluble
Bikini Island
Particulate
‘(seaward reef} Soluble
Bikini Island Particulate
(lagoon)
Ocean between
4088
1620
1620
2271
Soluble
Particulate
2271
4898
Bikini Island Particulate
1893
Bikini and
Suiuble
Enewetak@
(freshwater
well)
The
:
Soluble
4698
1893
1,440.6
13/Cs
12
<14 +
< 6
NS
21 +3
54
+9
97
27
+2
NS
NS
NS
1,540.8
NS
NS
2.5+ 1.7
<2.3
NS
NS
7,741.0
NS
21 +1
+60
NS
-
NS
NS
NS
<2.9
1,840.9
NS
NS
0.764 0.38
NS
NS
NS
L.itl.1
NS
NS
NS
<7
NS
+5
8,241.4
<22
5.44+1,1
2.0+ 0.8
NS
14 +3.7
<2
<30
3.0+ 0.5
NS
NS
70
160 +11.
O.5+ 0.3
<12
NS
NS
990
+4
<20
9.6+1.3
<16
6.4+1,2
Ns
6.2+5.4
9.2+6.6
NS
NSA
<1.0
1.5+1.5
5,641.0
+1
Radionuciide concentration in pci/a
49° Eu
207Rg
ortam
NS
34
NS
+0
“See ref. ll.
Errors are two-sigma, propagated, counting errors.
'Particulate--that portion retained by che 0.3 u filter.
Ssoluble=-that portion which passes through the 0.3 u filter and is sorbed by the A1,0, beds.
ANS--not significant. The net sample count is less than the two-sigma, propagated cOufhting error
OThis sample was collected over a 6 hr period between the following positions:
164°58'0" EB to 11924'5" N by 164018'0" E,
9002332
11°29'5" by