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RADIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS
Tables Twenty-one and Twenty-two show the rediochemical analysis
"made by AFL for the 1954-1955 surveys’ and Tables Twenty-three, Twentyfour and Twenty-five for the July 1956 survey.!
In two pools of 19 and
15 feet fish muscle samples collected in late July 1956 and anslyzed
by AFL, no radiostrontium wan found.
Tables Twenty-six and Twenty-seven show the radiochemical analysis
made by NADL for the February 1955 survey,” and Tables ‘Twenty-eight and
Twenty-nine, Thirty, Thirty-one, and Thirty-two for the February 1956
survey.
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Tables Four, Five, Six, Eleven, Twelve, Sixteen, Seventeen,
Twenty,
Thirty-three, Thirty-four, Thirty-five and Thirty-six show
analyses by HASL.
os3T accounted for an appreciable portion of activity found
in most of the plant life.
However, in terms of a potential biological
hazardthe strontium-90 activity ia of most interest.
At one year post detonation NRDL reporte:
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"oeTn muscle and
viscera samples of the animals from Rongelap, Utirik, and Rongerik,
gr99 contributes approximately 0.5 percent of the total beta activity. _
sr94s present in an approximately‘1:1 ratio: with gr®, ‘Since the
Hunter and Ballou calculations indicate that Sr89 and sr?” each contribute about 2 percent of the total beta activity at one year after
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fission, there does not appear to be any fractionation of radio-strontium
‘into the soft tissues.
As expected, most of the internally deposited
radioactivity was found in the skeleton.
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