Quarterdeck 3.2

Text version of table from "Plutonium and Cesium in the Kara Sea"

Sample: Effluents from Sellafield

Location: Irish Sea

Activity ratio in 1993 (Pu-238 to Pu-239,240) = .29±0.02

Source: British Nuclear Fuels, 1985

Sample: Effluents from Cap de la Hague

Location: English Channel

Activity ratio in 1993 (Pu-238 to Pu-239,240) = 0.46

Source: Calmet and Guegueniat, 1985

Sample: Dumped reactors in the Kara Sea

Location: Kara Sea

Activity ratio in 1993 (Pu-238 to Pu-239,240) = 0.26-0.49

Source: Mount, et al. 1993

Sample: Global fallout (+SNAP)

Location: Northern Hemisphere

Activity ratio in 1993 (Pu-238 to Pu-239,240) = 0.30

Source: Aarkrog, 1989

Sample: Surface sediments

Location: Kara Sea and the Ob and Yenisey Rivers

Activity ratio in 1993 (Pu-238 to Pu-239,240) = 0.035±0.003

Source: TAMU study

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Updated September 13, 1995