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deviation.
minus values are based on standard
For the purpose of comparing the radioactivity of
gamples at the test site with
iglands,
samples from the
"off-site"
values for Bikini Island have been included in Table 2.
Radioisotopic Composition
The results of the semiquantitative analyses of gamma
spectra of samples collected in 1956 and 1958 are given in
Appendix Table L; results of quantitative analyses for some
of the 1958 samples are given in Table 3. “The latter table
also includes the results of the sr?? analyses.
The samples |
were not analyzed immediately after collection;
consequently
the short-lived radioisotopes which might have been present at
the time of collection are not included in the results.
DISCUSSION
The highest levels of gross beta radioactivity
found in samples of
algae,
fish liver and muscle, and sea
cucumber muscle from Ujelang, Wotho,
Atolls
were
Utirik and Rongerik
(Table 2), which are only one hundred to three hundred
miles from the test site; however,
the levels in coconut meat
and milk were low, even at these atolls.
The radioactivity
Of similar samples from the outlying atolls and islands of
oe
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