

THE BEHAVIOR OF RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT IN SOILS AND PLANTS 



A Review Prepared for the 



Committee on Effects of Atomic Radiation on Agriculture 



and Food Supplies 

 National Academy of Sciences— National Research Council 



by 



M. H. FVere and R. G. Menzel 



/'Soil Scientists 



U. S. Soils Laboratory 



Agricultural Research Service 



U. S. Department of Agriculture 



Beltsville, Maryland 



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K. H. Larson 



Chief 



Environmental Radiation Division 



Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Biology 



University of California 



Los Angeles, California 



Roy Overstreet 



Professor of Soil Chemistry 



Department of Soils and Plant Nutrition 



University of California 



Berkeley, California 



R. F. Reitemeier 



Soil Scientist 



Division of Biology and Medicine 



U. S. Atomic Energy Commission 



Washington, D. C. 



Publication 1092 



National Academy of Sciences— National Research Council 



Washington, D. C. 



1963 



