aA 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 -32- The results