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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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