1. Introduction
1.1. Objective
The purpose of this study is to account for and make comparisons
with the activity of iodine-131 that was detected in the milk
samples from the dairy at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California. This
will be done by taking a select set of data comprised of the results of
air, vegetation and rainwater samples collected through the Diablo
Canyon Power Plant Radiological Environmental Monitoring Program
and fitting exponential regression curves to each sample set.
These functions will then be integrated to calculate a total amount
of activity present in the system over a period of selected days.
Applicable daily consumption rates of feed, water and air will be
multiplied by each integrated activity resulting in amounts in units
of becquerel. Then the amount of activity detected in milk will be
divided by the sum of the activity detected in feed, water and air.
The result will be compared to transfer coefficients and activity
percentages derived from previous studies.