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LIST OF TABLES
Tabulation of announced nuclear detonations at Bikini Atoll... .
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Concentrations of radionuclides reported in Bikini lagoon
sediments
.......0240808 a
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Concentration of plutonium isotopes in coral collected at
Bikini Atol] ........2.- cee ee ee ee ce ee es
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Water depth, date, and methods of collecting surface sediments
..
35
.......
36
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Alpha particle energies and abundances of plutonium, uranium
and polonium radioisotopes . . 1. 1. 1 ew we ewe we ew we ew ew we
4B
Radioisotopes with alpha particle decay energies within 0.1 MeV
of the decay energies of the radionuclides of interest ......
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Spontaneous plating of various radionuclides onto silver discs
..
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Radionuclides whose presence in the final plated sample are
unknown
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Energies of gamma-rays detected, from the radfonuclides measured,
. 2... 2. 2 ee eee ee wwe wee we wee
56
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Interlaboratory comparison of the concentration of gamma-emitting
radfonuclides in environmental samples .. 1... eee ees oes
59
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Distribution of 238, 234), 226 pn, and the radionuclide activity
Water depth and date of collection of sediment cores
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Interjaboratory calibration of
by gamma spectroscopy
239,240
Pu standards
ratio of 22695 /254y in surface sediments
.....-2.2.06- ~..
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Distribution of unsupported 21055 concentrations in surface
Sediments
...... eee. Ce ee ee ew we we ew te
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paeet (outfon of 238) 234) 235y and the ratios 238, to 235) and
35y and 234) to 238), with depth in sediment cores
........
97
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Distribution of 226, in sediment cores collected at stations
C-3 and B-2
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98
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Coefficients of variation of 239+240 Pu concentrations measured
in subsamples of dried Bikini sediments
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.......0e+0+80-
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Within station variation of radionuclide concentrations
te ee et www th we
expressed as coefficients of variation
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