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210Po and 239Pu, 240Pu in biological and water samples from the Bikini and Eniwetok atolls

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MEASUREMENTS of the radioactivity in water and biological samples from Bikini and Eniwetok lagoons indicate that although the samples were collected from the most plutonium-polluted waters of the world, the values of the naturally produced radionuclide, polonium-210 were usually greater than the values of plutonium-239 and 240, which are produced by nuclear detonations by factors as great as 100.

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NEVISSI, A., SCHELL, W. 210Po and 239Pu, 240Pu in biological and water samples from the Bikini and Eniwetok atolls. Nature 255, 321–323 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/255321a0

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