Re[2]: CS-137 in animals

["Neil, David M" <NEILDM@inel.gov>]

     Same thing here in Idaho.  In fact, of the game sampling results I
     recall, the highest Cs-137 level was in a pronghorn fawn of that year
     which was hit well off the INEL.  (Samples were collected from
     roadkill rather than hunter's kills)

     Dave Neil
     neildm@inel.gov


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Subject: Re: CS-137 in animals
Author:  RADSAFE (INELMAIL.RADSAFE) at _EMS
Date:    11/7/96 6:29 AM


I don't know about the deer around Boston, but deer in the southeastern U.S.
have Cs-137 from the above ground weapons test in the western U.S.  It is
apparently a combination of the weather patterns carrying fallout, potassium
deficiency in the soil, and the deer's diet of lichen, mushroom,
honeysuckle, etc.  This was reported in Health Physics several years ago.
>
>     "ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP ASKS HUNTERS TO SEND DEER PARTS"
>     BOSTON GLOBE ONLINE, 11/4/96, Associated Press
>

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