1984 BIOASSAY SUMMARY
Whole-body counting was performed at Rongelap, Utirik and Enewetak
Islands during June 1984.
Urine samples were collected for Pu analysis which
will be performed at Brookhaven National Laboratory at a later date.
The
field whole-body counting units were calibrated with phantoms which
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represented adults, teenagers and children. Quality control measurements were
made before, during and after the mission.
Historic Results
The history of whole-body counting for 137¢, at Rongelap is given as
Figure 1.
The plot is for adults.
Besides 137og, other radionuclides vere
present in persons who returned to Rongelap and these historic results are
recorded in Table l.
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