Nineteen
coconut
Green
on the island.
meat
and milk
detectable
the milk
samples
were
were
coconuts
analyzed
in any of the
from
selected
limit
of detection
Table
1.
collected
were
from
used
coconuts
Only
Tritium
200
0.31
480
130
26 - 400
Arrowroot”’”
—.——-—.—
0.6
reference
0.4-
number
~Y grinding,
Island
1969
4-
48 - 270
The
on
lower
Bikini
l~7cs
130
ENEU
From
Range
milk
k 2.6
Sr
28
2.4
1.1
2.
rinsing
t;lree times with
(Marshal lese method
water.
the
90
Coconut
fresh
in Food
1967*
120
tprePared
beiow
1 37CS
meat
from
performed
(0.4 pCi/ml).
Coconut
*Data
and the
‘]CSr w~re
were
were
locations
samp;es
l:j7Cs and
but all results
1969
Pandanus
all
analyses
Mean 1S7CS and “’)Sr Concentration
(pCi/g wet weight)
Sample
different
for almost
separately.
samples.
thirteen
salt water
and once
with
of preparation)
ISLAND
second
lamest
the cleanup
Bikini
stages.
was
filling
approximately
Surveys
obtained
of this
all exterior
The
pit”
apron
showed
surfaces.
3).
area
exposure
Of particular
Although
location
reduced
interest
was
of the airstrip
interior
of the
levels
camp
than
an exposure
rate
during
the
the
level
ranged
which
early
from
less
c!rcontamination
bisects
measured
than
the
island.
:!O llR/hr for
appj’oximatelY
50 uR/hr.
Thirteen
cable
represented
were
removed
spools,
the only
giving
a combined
radioactive
and disposed
scrap
of at sea.
contact
located
reading
on the
for
to
an aircraft
to be less
of the drain
ba~e
lower
rate generally
background
The
site
to be considerably
(Figure
“borrow
to the parking
area
found
and the
at one depressed
10 pR/hr.
of this
was
background
10 to 20 uR/hr.
pad adjacent
in the atoll,
Eneu,
operation,
in external
of 50 MR/hr
than
island
of 2G(J ~R/hr,
island.
These