Appendix Table F. Gross beta radioactivity of the biological
samples
collected at Rongerik Atoll, February 3, 1955,
expressed in d/m/g of wet tissue at time of analysis™,
The 0.95 counting error is included.
Species
Tand Plants
Cocomut
Tissue
a/m/g
Meat
17 : 2.7
Milk
Tomato
Fruit
Leaf
Stem
Root
Fish
~Blenny
Muscle
Liver
Viscera
Bone
Skin
1, ¢ 38
2 t 197
259 : 12
1,050 - 34
870 +
1,750 ¢
:
+
hl = 7.8
oF 5.4
Muscle
Liver
t
z 8.0
1,060 = 68
1,280 : 65
1,690 3 207
15,200 - 278
9,150 + 171
7,730 = 162
251 + 32
w8 £ 37
208 z 22
81 = ar
67 ¢ 6.
Oh
Convict surgeén
hi
65
-
8.5
hy : 5.4
37 5 6.3
[8 thé
3,200 + 8B
2,800 t 86
2,770 = 77
1,230 = 60
*
Samples were collected seven months after Operation Castle and
were counted 3/5-25/55.
IS