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RECORD NUMBER: 81 OF 655

Main Title Levels and distribution of environmental plutonium around the Trinity site /
Author Douglas, Richard L.
CORP Author Office of Radiation Programs, Las Vegas, NV.
Publisher Environmental Portection Agency, Office of Radiation Programs, Las Vegas Facility,
Year Published 1978
Report Number ORP-LV-78-3
Stock Number PB-290 994
OCLC Number 04781403
ISBN pbk.
Subjects Radioactive fallout--New Mexico ; Plutonium
Additional Subjects Plutonium ; Plutonium 239 ; Concentration(Composition) ; Fallout ; Radioactive contaminants ; Air pollution ; Soil surveys ; Sampling ; Environmental surveys ; New Mexico ; Trinity shot ; Plutonium 240 ; Isotope ratio
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EJBD  EPA ORP/LV-78-3 Headquarters Library/Washington,DC 09/14/2012
ELBD ARCHIVE EPA ORP-LV-78-3 Received from HQ AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 10/04/2023
ELBD RPS EPA ORP-LV-78-3 repository copy AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 11/23/2015
ELBD  EPA ORP-LV-78-3 AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 12/02/2015
NTIS  PB-290 994 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation viii, 42 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Abstract
A study was conducted in central New Mexico to evaluate the levels and distribution of plutonium resulting from the detonation of the Trinity device in 1945. A total of 88 soil samples were collected, covering an area of roughly 4500 square miles. Air samples were collected during 1975 at a location within the Trinity fallout pattern, and at another site outside the pattern. All samples were analyzed for plutonium-239,240 by alpha spectroscopy, and some were analyzed by mass spectroscopy for both nuclides. Trinity plutonium can be distinguished from global fallout plutonium by the ratio of the two plutonium nuclides. The results indicate that most of the area sampled contains detectable amounts of Trinity plutonium in the surface 5 cm of soil. The highest levels of plutonium-239,240 deposition in soil (in unrestricted areas) were on the order of 90 nCi/m2. The air samples at the site within the fallout pattern contained about 50 percent Trinity plutonium, but the average concentration of airborne plutonium at the two locations was the same.
Notes
Includes insert map of Trinity site soil sampling locations and results. "ORP-LV-78-3." "October 1978." Cover title. Includes bibliographical references.