A Survey of the Uranium Content of Vegetation in Great Britain

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Needles of Pinus sylvestris and the leaves of Prunus laurocerasus and Rhododendron ponticum, collected on a 50 mile grid of Great Britian, were analyzed for uranium content The concentration-frequency curves are positively skewed, but the logs satisfy a normal distribution. The 95% confidence ranges are 0.13-1.7 and 0.04-0.7 and the median values 0.48 and 0.16 [mu]g/g ash for pine and broadleaf respectively. Vegetation growing in the unearthed debris of an old Cornish uranium mine gave maximum concentrations of the order 10-4 g/g ash.

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