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TABLE 7 (Continued) 



Plant species 



Range ofCR 



Conditions and comments 



Reference 



Barley (shoots) 



10" 



Beans (shoots) 

 Beans (shoots) 



Qover, Ladino 



Lettuce (plants) 

 Lettuce (plants) 

 Oats (plants) 



10" 



10" 



10-' to 10" 



10-* 



10-' (av.)* 

 10-' (av.)* 



Grown in Cinebar (pH 4.5) 

 and Ephrata (pH 7.5) 

 soils using the Neubauer 

 technique; soils spiked 

 with lOMCi/gof "'Pu 

 as Pu(N03)4 : uptake 

 similar from two soils. 



Same as for barley above; 



seeds mainly used for 



human food. 

 Grown in standard Hoagland 



solution spiked with 1.0 



MCi/literof "'Pu 



asPu(N03)^. 



Grown in 1 20 kg of NTS soil; 

 high-fired PuO^ ; 70 

 nCi/g(soil)of ^'''^^''Pu; 

 CR increased sevenfold 

 in 5 yr; mainly used 

 for livestock feed. 



Grown in 5 to 7 kg of soil 

 collected from top layer 

 of a field adjacent to 

 a reprocessing facihty 

 at SRP: homogenized soil 

 contained 2 pCi/g total 

 plutonium; used mainly 

 for livestock feed plus 

 some for human food. 



Same as for alfalfa; mainly 



for human food. 

 Same as for barley. 



Same as for barley; grain 

 mainly used for human 

 food plus ingredient for 

 animal feed; plants 

 used as forage. 



Qine, 1968 



Wilson and Gine, 

 1966 



Qine, 1968 



Romney, Mork, and 

 Larson, 1970 



Adriano, Corey, and 

 Dahlman, this 

 volume 



Adams et al., 



1975 

 Adams et al., 



1975 

 Adams et al., 



1975 



the shoots as greens. 



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