Contents 



FOREWORD iii 



PREFACE vii 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix 



CONTRIBUTORS xi 



SYNTHESIS OF THE RESEARCH LITERATURE 1 



R. L. Walters, D. .\. Edgington, T. E. Hakonson, W. C. Hanson, M. H. Smith, 

 F. W. Whicker, and R. E. Wildung 



INTRODUCTION 



Radiological Assessments, Environmental Monitoring, and Study Design 45 



Wayne R. Hansen and Donald R. Elle 



SOURCE TERMS 



Worldwide Fallout 53 



R. W. Perkins and C. W. Thomas 



Transuranic Elements in Space Nuclear Power Systems 83 



Thaddeus J. Dobry, Jr. 



Quantities of Transuranic Elements in the Environment from Operations 

 Relating to Nuclear Weapons 86 



Gordon Facer 



Transuranic Wastes from the Commercial Light-Water-Reactor Cycle 92 



M. R. Kreiter, J. E. Mendel, and R. W. McKee 



INVENTORY AND DISTRIBUTION 



The Detection and Study of Plutonium-Bearing Particles Following the 107 



Reprocessing of Reactor Fuel 



5. Marshall Sanders, Jr., and Albert L. Boni 



Physicochemical Associations of Plutonium and Other Actinides in Soils 145 



E. A. Bondietti and T. Tamura 



Sources of Variation in Soil Plutonium Concentrations 165 



John E. Finder HI and Donald Paine 



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