Index 



Americium-24 1 

 airborne at Hanford, 263-264 

 ^ " ' Am/.^ 3 9 ,2 4 py jatios in Enewetak sedi- 

 ments, 583 

 in Bikini Atoll sediments, 545-551 

 biokinetic behavior in marine biota, 529-530 

 chemical reactions in soil, 309 

 concentration ratio (CR), 343-349, 363-368 

 concentrations in arctic animals, 455 

 distribution in plants, 343-344, 368 

 effect of soil concentration on, 340-342, 



365-368 

 in effluent ponds at Hanford, 612-613 

 field experiments with, 361-368 

 in-powth from ^'" Pu, 54, 73-75, 90 

 inventory at Enewetak and Bikini, 588-589 

 released to White Oak Creek, 384-385 

 uptake by plants, 340-346, 361-368 

 variability in sampling in soils, 191-193 



Aquatic ecosystems 

 freshwater, 644-658 

 general, 7-9, 15-24 

 Great Lakes, 659-681 

 Hanford, 625-642 

 Hudson River, 685-689 



Availability of ^ '" Pu compared with ^ ^ ' Pu 

 in agricultural crops, 398-399 

 effects of several factors on, 340-344 

 long term, 349 



Behavior of transuranics 

 in Great Lakes, 662-680 

 in marine ecosystems, 524-536 



Bikini Atoll, transuranic elements in marine 

 environment of, 541-576 



Biological half-life of ^ ^ ' Pu in marine mussels, 



527 



Biological uptake of transuranic elements 

 by cattle (model), 479-480 

 by marine organisms, 525-531 



Chemistry of transuranic elements, 3-4, 9-12, 

 146 

 in Bikini Atoll seawater, 569 

 Coefficients of variation (CV) 

 components of, 165-167 

 effect of particle size on, 171-172 

 in predicted values of simulation models, 



517-519 

 for^'^Pu, ^3»Pu, and^^°Pu, 165 



in soil, 165-166 

 in Rocky Flats ecosystem samples, 429-430 



Complexation of transuranic elements in soils, 

 309-312 



Concentration ratio (CR) 

 of^'^'Am, 343-349, 363-368 



in marine biota, 529-530 

 of ^^^ Cm, 365-368 



complications in marine ecosystems, 531-532 

 difficulties in interpretation, 180, 188-189, 



343-346 

 factors influencing in plants, 349-357 

 in Oak Ridge and Los Alamos biota, 376 

 of Plutonium in agricultural crops at 



Savannah River and White Oak Creek, 



398-399 

 for Plutonium and americium in aquatic 



biota, 613-617 

 of Plutonium in Rocky Flats samples, 



433435,654-658 

 of ^^ ''Pu in marine biota, 526-529 

 of "" Pu, " ^ '^ "o Pu, and ' ^ ' Cs in lichens, 



452453 

 fQj 2 3 8 ,2 3 9 ,2 4 py jj^ southwestcm U. S. 



vegetation, 41 1-413, 473477, 479480 

 of '^»Pu, 363-368 



on respirable particles, 253-254 

 of 2 3 9 ,2 4 py jj^ Alaskan biota, 452 

 Qf 2 3 9 ,2 4 py jj^ Enewetak algae, water, and 



sediment, 593 

 fQj 2 3 9 ,2 4 pu j„ Q jggt Lakes, 6 1 6-6 1 7 

 Qj- 2 39 ,24opu jn Rocky Flats biota, 654-658 

 in terrestrial and aquatic food webs, 26-33 



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