“adlonuciide concentrations
in
cirds
and tird
eggs at
iikin: Atoll.
Concentration.
-
Source
Lymen ¢5 al”
-
.
~
~Slana
Oroken
23
Sam-
.
Sdecies
Dle
Fairy tern
L
-
2Ci,g wet weight
a
50
‘Muscle
9.26
3.079
-
—
Q.15
—
~
Tissue
Co
137
Cs
90.
Sr
229,24
405,
Zeld~
'
Noddy
tarn
5
Muscle
1.3
'y
4
y
a
5
=
-s
Liver
wei
<0.4
_
-
"
"
5
Muscle
9.29
<0.4
_-
_
t
"
c
5
Te
Liver
9.42
<0.4
_
_
Sooty and
noody tern
4
Muscle
9.30
<0.017
9.013
_
Bird eggs
_
theiled
).06
09.13
0.07
-
Yic “Nelson.-°
unpuolishedad
Fairy tern
t
Nam
"
"
tT
7
9
/
J
e2e
;
.
30.
the resultizg dose compared to
Sr
a
nd 137
Table 20.
Average radionuclide concentrations in birds and bird
Cs is very small.
eggs at Bikini Atoll.
Concentration,
TERRESTRIAL FOOD CHAIN
pCi/g wet weight
60.5
The availability of locally grown
terrestrial food products was still
minimal in June 1975.
Thousands of
coconut trees were planted in the
Birds
3ird
eggs
1374,
90...
239,240,
0.76
0.22
0.04
0.022
9.015
0.033
0.018
3.0059
latter half of 1969 on Bikini and
Eneu, but only a few were bearing
fruit in 1975.
Pandanus fruit and
breadfruit were planted during the
Island and produced fruit during the
same time period on Bikini Island, and
past two years.
the first few fruits from these trees
As a result of the sparsity of
appeared over the past vear and a
available food crops, our goals in the
half.
The number of these trees is,
limited survey were to sample the
however, not great and their distri-
vegetation of all species of ‘food
bution is limited.
crops available as well as indicator
No breadfruit or
Pandanus fruit were planted on Eneu.
plants such as Seaevoia and “’esser-
Banana and tapaya trees were also
schmtdta, to sample edible fruit where
Dlanted at <=vo locations on Bikini
available, and to take soil >rotile