TABLE OF CONTENTS 



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Foreword vii 



Contents ix 



General Considerations Concerning the Ocean as a Receptacle for Arti- 

 ficially Radioactive Materials, 



Roger Revelle and Milner B. Schaejer 1 



Chapter 1. Physical and Chemical Properties of Wastes Produced by Atomic 

 Power Industry. 



Charles E. Remi 26 



Chapter 2. Comparison of Some Natural Radiations Received by Selected 

 Organisms. 



Theodore R. Folsom and John H. Harley 28 



Chapter 3. Disposal of Radioactive Wastes in the Ocean: The Fission Product 

 Spectrum in the Sea as a Function of Time and Mixing Char- 

 acteristics. 



Harmon Craig 34 



Chapter 4. Transport and Dispersal of Radioactive Elements in the Sea. 



Warren S. Wooster and Bosttvick Ketchum 43 



Chapter 5. The Effects of the Ecological System on the Transport of Ele- 

 ments IN the Sea. 



Bostwick H. Ketchum 52 



Chapter 6. Precipitation of Fission Product Elements on the Ocean Bottom 

 BY Physical, Chemical, and Biological Processes. 



Dayton E. Carritt and John H. Harley 60 



Chapter 7. Ecological Factors Involved in the Uptake, Accumulation, and 

 Loss of Radionuclides by Aquatic Organisms. 

 Louis A. Krnmholz, Edward D. Goldberg and Howard A. Boroughs . . 69 

 Chapter 8. Laboratory Experiments on the Uptake, Accumulation, and Loss 

 OF Radionuclides by Marine Organisms. 

 Howard Boroughs, Walter A. Chipman and Theodore R. Rice .... 80 



Chapter 9. Accumulation and Retention of Radioactivity from Fission Prod- 

 ucts AND Other Radiomaterials by Fresh-Water Organisms. 



Louis A. Krumholz and Richard F. Foster 88 



Chapter 10. Effects of Radiation on Aquatic Organisms. 



Lauren R. Donaldson and Richard F. Foster 96 



Chapter 11. Isotopic Tracer Techniques for Measurement of Physical and 

 Chemical Processes in the Sea and the Atmosphere. 



Harmon Craig 103 



Chapter 12. On the Tagging of Water Masses for the Study of Physical Proc- 

 esses in the Oceans. 



Theodore R. Folsom and Allyn C. Vine 121 



Chapter 13. Large-Scale Biological Experiments Using Radioactive Tracers. 



Milner B. Schaejer 133 



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