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1 1.0 Introduction 2 2.0 Literature Review  4 2.1 General  4 2.1.1 Pocket Gopher Ecology  4 2.1.2 Effect of Burrowing on Soil Characteristics and Erosion  5 2.2 Burrowing Over Waste Trenches 6 2.3 Vegetation and Burrowing Animal Interactions  6 2.4 Movement of Radionuclides  7 2.4.1 Uptake Through Foraging 7 2.4.2 Exposure Through Predation 7 2.5 Effect of Burrowing on the Distribution of Contaminants  8 2.6 Radiation Ecotoxicology 9 3.0 Study Site  10 3.1 General  10 3.2 Climate and Physical Characteristics 10 3.3 Waste Burial Sites 10 4.0 Methods and Materials 11 4.1 Preliminary Work 11 4.2 Study Sites 12 4.3 Waste Characteristics of Study Plots  12 4.4 Gopher Population Density 14 4.5 Soil Sample Collection  14 4.6 Vegetation Sampling 15 4.6.1 Radioisotope Analysis  15 4.6.2 Vegetation Site Characterization 16 4.7 Pocket Gopher Sampling 16 4.8 Chemical Analysis  16 4.9 Statistical Analysis 16 4.10 Assumptions 17 4.11 Uncertainty 18 5.0 Results and Discussion  18 5.1 Population Estimate  18 5.2 Soil Characteristics  19 5.3 Vegetation Characteristics  19 5.4 Paired T-tests and Upward Transport of Radionuclides by Gophers  20 5.5 Potential Risk  21 5.6 Comparisons with Past Surveillance Data  23 5.7 Americium 23 5.8 Plutonium-238/239 25 5.9 Uranium  26 5.10 Tritium  31 5.11 Media Relationships 34 6.0 Conclusions 35

Source Document: The Relationship Between Pocket Gophers (Thomomys bottae) and the Distribution of Buried Radioactive Waste at the Los Alamos National Laboratory