Involving skeptical citizens in a soil sampling study: How citizens measured soil radioactivity levels Near a former nuclear weapons plant

摘要

Citizens most concerned about con- tamination near a former nuclear weapons plant had a unique opportuni- ty to develop their own environmental sampling program to test their ideas about the extent of contamination from Rocky Flats. They dealt with the com- Plexities of soil sampling. Laboratory Analyses, and interpretation of data on Radionuclides in soils and sediments. The sampling results confirm con- Clusions from past soil and sediment Studies.