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Table 22.
‘Measured and estimated radionuciide concentrations in food
croducts cn 3ikini and Eneu Iisiands at Bikini Atoll.
Concentration, 2Ci/g wet weight
i January 1975
Food product
305,
~37 65
9c
739,-505,,
46.7
<1.30(-2)*
—<4.81(-3)
90.5
<3.59(-2)
<6.12(-3)
<O.111
<1.06(-2)
3ikini terrestrial foods
Pandanus fruit
?readfruit
7.60
17.3
Toconut meat (dry wr)
1,82
Coconut milk
0.851
50.6
<0.103
<9,01(-3)
Domestic meat
0.201
22.2
<1.05(-2)
<1.42(-2)
Coconut crabs
Garden vegetables
Pandanus fruit
108
220
12.9
47.6
1.09
56.7
7.40(-3)
<5.56(-4)
Eneu terrestrial foods
6.8(-3)
0.407
3.09
<1.02(-3)7
<3. 96(-4)
Breadfruit
0.924
5.99
<2.82(-3)
<5.03(-4)
Coconut meat (dry wt)
9.76(-2)
7.16
<8.74(-3)
<1. 86(-2)
Coconut milk
4.56(-2)
3.35
<8.07(-3)
<7.41(-3)
<1.08(-~2)
1.47
<8.24(-4)
<1.17(-3)
Domestic meat
Coconut crabs
220
Garden vegetables
47.6
0.689
3.75
1.09
5.82(-4)
Numbers in parentheses indicates powers of 10, i.e.,
indicates x 1072.
6.8(=3)
<4,57(-5)
(-2)
This conservative approach was
predicted concentrations in the food
adopted because we lack any definitive
products and, as a result, would
information that would indicate that
reduce the predicted doses via the
environmental processes might result
terrestrial pathway.
in more rapid,
effective removal of
The dietary intake values in Table 3
radionuclides from the environment.
and the concentrations in Table 23 were
Any environmental process that might
used to generate the pCi/da intake of
cause the removal of radionuclides
each of the radionuclides.
from the environment more rapidly than
in Table 24 are for a diet entirely
the vhysical decay of the radionu-
from Eneu Island, while those in
clides would, of course, reduce the
Table 25 are for a diet solely from
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The results