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Science 7 March 1980:
Vol. 207. no. 4435, pp. 1071 - 1073
DOI: 10.1126/science.207.4435.1071
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Fallout Plutonium in an Alkaline, Saline Lake

H. J. SIMPSON 1, R. M. TRIER 1, C. R. OLSEN 1, D. E. HAMMOND 2, A. EGE 2, L. MILLER 2, and J. M. MELACK 3

1 Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory and Department of Geological Sciences, Columbia University, Palisades, New York 10964
2 Department of Geological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90007
3 Department of Biological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106

Plutonium isotopes, derived from global fallout following atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons, have been measured in the water and sediments of a natural alkaline, saline lake. The activities of fallout plutonium in the water column are about two orders of magnitude greater than in most freshwater lakes, where these nuclides are found predominantly in the sediments.

Submitted on April 17, 1979
Revised on August 21, 1979


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