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Science 16 March 1962:
Vol. 135. no. 3507, p. 926
DOI: 10.1126/science.135.3507.926
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Zinc-65 Levels in Oysters in the Thames River (Connecticut)

B. W. Fitzgerald 1, J. S. Rankin 1, and D. M. Skauen 1

1 Marine Research Laboratory, University of Connecticut, Noank

Levels of zinc-65 in oysters from selected sites in the Thames River (Connecticut) have been determined for a 12-month period. The highest levels of radioactivity were in oysters from a bed situated opposite the United States submarine base in March 1961 (1637 micro-microcuries per kilogram of moist tissue). None of the samples assayed showed sufficient amounts of radioactivity to represent a health hazard.

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