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Gamma Emitters in a Fin Whale

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BALEEN whales are prodigious collectors of marine zooplankton. Zooplankton in turn concentrate radionuclides. Both fission products from fall-out, and neutron-induced radionuclides (mostly zinc-65) from Hanford Laboratories, Washington, have been reported in marine zooplankton off Oregon1,2. An opportunity to measure the same radionuclides in various tissues of a plankton -feeding mammal occurred when a fin whale, Bolaenoptera physalus Linnaeus, was captured west of Depoe Bay, Oregon, on September 19, 1963.

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    CHARLES OSTERBERG, WILLIAM PEARCY & NORMAN KUJALA

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OSTERBERG, C., PEARCY, W. & KUJALA, N. Gamma Emitters in a Fin Whale. Nature 204, 1006–1007 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2041006a0

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