Table E-3.

Plutonium 239-240 radionuclide concentrations for coconuts from 1978-1983

€9 5000S

on Bikini Island (B-6) in pCi/g wet weight.
Minimum

Max imum

Median

Mean

$0

Section Bl
Or. coco meat
Dr. coco fluid
Copra meat
Copra fluid

0
0
1
0

O.000€&+00
0.000E+00
8.738E-05
0.000E+00

0.000E&+00
0.000E+00
8.738E-05
0.000€+00

0:000E+00
0.000E+00
8.738E-05
0.000£+00

0.000E+00
90.000E+00
8.738E-05
0.000€+00

0.000&+00
0.000E+00
0.000E+00
0.000E+00

0.000E+00
0.000E+00
-9.345&+00
0.000E+00

0.000E+00
0.000E+00
8 aoe
.000E+00

Section B2
Dr. coco meat
Dr. coco fluid
Copra meat
Copra fluid

3
0
6
0

4.091E-05
0.000E+00
3.770€-06
0.000E+00

3.683€-04
0.000E+00
8.388E-05
0.000E+00

7.459F-05
0.000E+00
2.140EF-05
0.000E+00

1.613E-04
0.000E+00
3.676€-05
0.000E+00

1.801£-04
0.000E+00
3.453E€-05
0.000E+00

-9.171E+00
0.000E+00
-1.068E&+01
0.000E+00

1.136£+00
06.000E+00
1.161E+00
0.000E+00

Section 83
Dr. coco meat
Or. coco fluid

4
0

7.260E-06
0.000E+00

5.572E-05
0.000£+00

2.451E-05
0.000€+00

2.800€-05
0.000E+00

2.169£-05
0.000E+00

1

9.014€-06

9.014F-06

9.014€-06

9.014£-06

0.000E+00

-1.088E+01

9.018E-01
0.000E+00

Copra fluid

3.851E-05

-1.076E+01
0.000E+00

—-1.1628+01

0.000£+00

7

§.752E-06

1.158&-04

1.437E-05

2. 887E-05

of logs

SO

N2

Copra meat

$-3

Mean

Food source

of logs

8.451E-01

Section B4
Dr. coco meat
Dr.. coco fluid
Copra meat
Copra fluid

4
0
5
2

1.091E-05
6.000E+00
§.207€-06
1.606€-05

1.945€-04
0.000€+00
2.704E-04
5.959€-05

2.223€-05
0.000E+00
2.297E-05
3.782E-05

6.246E€-05
0.000€&+00
6.619E-05
3.782E-05

8.864€-05
0.000E+00
-1.146€-04
3.078€-05

-1.042E+01
0.000E+00
-1.073€+01
-1.038EF+01

1.353E+00
0.000E+00
1.600E+00
9.271E-01

Section B5
Dr. coco meat
Dr. coco fluid
Copra meat
Copra fluid

3.
0
5
0

2.967E-05
©G.000E+00
1.092€-05
0O.000E+00

3.975€-05
0.000E+00
2.700E-04
0.000E+00

3.642E-05
0.000E+00
2.521E-05
0.000E+00

3.528€-05
0.000E+00
9.037E-05
0.000E+00

5.136€-06
0.000E+00
1.103E-04
0.000E+00

-1.026E+01
6.000E+00
-9.993£+00
0.000E+00

1.501E-01
0.000E+00
1.334E&+00
0.000£+00

Section B6
Dr. coco meat
Or. coco fluid
Copra meat
Copra fluid

3.
0
3
0

1.677E-05
0.000E+00
17.671E-05
0.000E+00

6.488E-05
0.000E+00
2.323£-05
90.000E+00

2.656F-05
0.0006+00
2.079E-05
0.000E+00

3.607£-05
0.000€+00
2.024E-05
0.000E+00

2.543E-05
0.000E&+00
3.294€-06
0.000E+00

-1.039E+01
0.000E+00
-1.082E+01
0.000E+00

6.879E-01
0.000E+00
1.676E-01
0.000E+00

17.
0
27)
3

—-7.260E-06
Q0.000E+00
=63.770€-06
9.014£-06

§=©3.683E-04
0.000E+00
2.704E-04
5.9596-05

3.421E-05
0.000F+00
2.079€-05
1.606€-05

6.234€-05
0.000€&+00
5.013E-05
2.822E-05

8.998E-~05
0.000E+00
7.173E-05
2.739§-05

-1.025E+01
0.000E+00
-1.058£+01
-1.079&+01

].006E+00
0.000&+00
1.1217€+00
9.678E-01

Island average

Or. coco meat
Or. coco fluid
Copra meat

Copra fluid
NOTE:

Specific activity +s decay corrected to January 1, 1987.

4 N stands for number of composite samples.

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