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Radioactive contamination of plants in Japan covered with fallout from H-bomb detonations in March-May 1954 at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. I. Distribution of deposited radioactivity

Abstract

In May 1954 rains contained radioactivity up to 0.2 muc./liter. The provisional permissible level of unknown radioisotopes in H/sub 2/O is given as 10/sup -7/ muc./ml for ..beta..- or ..gamma..-emitters. The safety factor for these values is at least 100. From these values the permissible level for foods was calculated as 0.22 muc./day. Food plants tested ranged 0 to 1.25 muc./10g dry matter. It is concluded that serious radioactive contamination of plants was probable.
Publication Date:
Jan 01, 1955
Product Type:
Journal Article
Reference Number:
EDB-80-112805
Resource Relation:
Journal Name: Soil Plant Food; (Japan); Journal Volume: 1
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE; JAPAN; RADIATION MONITORING; PLANTS; RADIOACTIVITY; RAIN; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BIKINI; CONTAMINATION; FALLOUT; GAMMA RADIATION; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE LEVEL; RADIATION HAZARDS; THERMONUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; ASIA; ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; EXPLOSIONS; HAZARDS; HEALTH HAZARDS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; ISLANDS; ISOTOPES; MARSHALL ISLANDS; MICRONESIA; MONITORING; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; OCEANIA; RADIATIONS; RADIOISOTOPES; SAFETY STANDARDS; STANDARDS; 510302* - Environment, Terrestrial- Radioactive Materials Monitoring & Transport- Terrestrial Ecosystems & Food Chains- (-1987); 500300 - Environment, Atmospheric- Radioactive Materials Monitoring & Transport- (-1989); 450200 - Military Technology, Weaponry, & National Defense- Nuclear Explosions & Explosives
OSTI ID:
5025324
Country of Origin:
Japan
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Journal ID: CODEN: SPFOA
Submitting Site:
TIC
Size:
Pages: 21-22
Announcement Date:
Nov 01, 1980

Citation Formats

Yatazawa, M, and Ishihara, T. Radioactive contamination of plants in Japan covered with fallout from H-bomb detonations in March-May 1954 at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. I. Distribution of deposited radioactivity. Japan: N. p., 1955. Web.
Yatazawa, M, & Ishihara, T. Radioactive contamination of plants in Japan covered with fallout from H-bomb detonations in March-May 1954 at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. I. Distribution of deposited radioactivity. Japan.
Yatazawa, M, and Ishihara, T. 1955. "Radioactive contamination of plants in Japan covered with fallout from H-bomb detonations in March-May 1954 at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. I. Distribution of deposited radioactivity." Japan.
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title = {Radioactive contamination of plants in Japan covered with fallout from H-bomb detonations in March-May 1954 at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. I. Distribution of deposited radioactivity}
author = {Yatazawa, M, and Ishihara, T}
abstractNote = {In May 1954 rains contained radioactivity up to 0.2 muc./liter. The provisional permissible level of unknown radioisotopes in H/sub 2/O is given as 10/sup -7/ muc./ml for ..beta..- or ..gamma..-emitters. The safety factor for these values is at least 100. From these values the permissible level for foods was calculated as 0.22 muc./day. Food plants tested ranged 0 to 1.25 muc./10g dry matter. It is concluded that serious radioactive contamination of plants was probable.}
journal = []
volume = {1}
journal type = {AC}
place = {Japan}
year = {1955}
month = {Jan}
}