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Muslim, Heny Suseno and Mia Juni Pratiwi

Behavior

of

^137Cs

Activity

in the Sayung Waters, Demak, Indonesia muslim. ir@undip. ac. id

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11 What does TOC stand for? TOC stand for Total Organic Carbon

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What

are

the

specifications

of the filter

^paper,

oven and ^gamrna

spectrometer

used in

^this

research?

The specification

of

Filter paper is Selectron

BA

85 0.45 pm

Gamma spectrometer is system that consist HPGe detector (Canberra type GX2018),

MCA

connected to PC

156 Were --+ was

ok

182 How did you measure/define unifonnity?

More uniform: it ^meanthat activities

of "'Cs

in second group station (station

2,3,

4,and 5) relatively more similar than in

frst

^group

station (station ₁_and6)

178- 243

Why. in the first group. the Cs-137 activitv

in

station 1 is higher than that

of

station 6 even thoug} the speed current in station ¹^ishieher than the one in station 6. This is in conffast with the Cs-137 activitv trend in sroup 2 in which

Because the ^i37Csactivity in the seawater at station 6 has been scavenged by pollutant and precipitated to surface sediment. This result can be seen in table 3 that the highest I37Cs

activity in sediment occurred in the station 6.

the higher the speed current the lower

the

$.

Cs-137 activitv. Please exolarn in the

text!

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i

2r2-

217

Accordins to this claim, it is

difficull

to ^prsdrqt

Ok, the fate word is changed to behavior the fate o-f Cs-137 in the Sayuns waters due

to long terrn physical and chemical processes.

Thus. the title bf the manuscript strould be chanse. Do not use the word "the fate".

256-

2s9 Reference is needed here We add the scientific reason that refer to reference number 28

276- 293

Why the R2 for fiSures 2 and 3 are very low?

What are

the

levels ef confidence for these datzf?

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am oersonallv not confident with the data

Usuatly organic carbon has capable adsorbed some elements. butthis capabiliw

will

weak vou prpsented in these Fiqures sinco the R2

are less thanglo/o. Please give explanations why

when there are other chemicals that shonger to scavenge. Thus borrelation regression between TOC and

"'Cs

become negative.

The correlation regression

G$

^was^low

it

due to TOC in Sayung doesn't strong capable scavenged ^137Csrather than chemical pollutant.

the low levels ofconfidence occur. and

what are the limitations of vour exoerimental set up? You rnal, need to do

ANOVA

or other statistical analysis to reiect or accept the exnerimental data.

448- 449

Fis. 1 is not very clear. particularlv the x- and y- We think the size (mega bite) of Fig.1 is big eirough for map figure. Maybe it was not clear. because the fisure size is small.

axes. Please reproduce

it

and apply bigser font size!

i Ea Please also include the effor bars for Fig. 2 and We have done

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the

of the filter

oven and gamrna

used in

of

BA

MCA

ok

of "'Cs

2,3,

frst

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text!

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