ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LABORATORY OF RADIATION BIOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON,
JULY 1,
1959 - JUNE 30,
The Laboratory of Radiation Biology
(formerly the Applied
Fisheries Laboratory) has completed its seventeenth
active contract research with the U.
mission and its predecessors.
on the testing of atomic
S. Atomic
year of
Energy Com-
The international moratorium
devices during the past year has
provided an opportunity for the
vast amount of
1960
data that has
Laboratory to evaluate the
accumulated and
to direct
efforts into other areas of interest in the field of radiation biology.
The work of the
effort,
Laboratory is coordinated
into a unit
but for ease in reporting and summarizing the opera-
tions are reported individually.
A. Fallout Studies at the Eniwetok Test Site
Supervisors: Frank G.
Lowman and Ralph F.
Palumbo
A continuous effort has been made to evaluate the biological impact of the series of devices tested
during Operation
Hardtack in 1958.
Radiochemical separations and gamma spectrometric analyses
were
made on a sample of fallout from
one device detonated