Appendix Table A.
Gross beta radioactivity of the biological
samples collected at Bikar Atoll, February 3,
1955, expressed in d/m/g of wet tissue at
time of analysis*®.
included.
Species
Land Plants
—Ttoconut
The 0.95 counting error is
Tissue
a/m/g
Meat
20 $ 3.5
Milk
21 t 3.7
15 t .98
1S
Scaevola
Birds
Fairy tern
2.7
16 t .86
16 t 1.0
Leaf
272 - 20
Muscle
Liver
Lung
Kidney
ITleum
Bone
38
130
212
91
85
14
t
t
t
t
t
:
4.9
6.8
21
6.8
7.8
30
Muscle
Liver
Lung
Kidney
Tleum
46
31,
182
379
85
t
+
t
=
t
3.3
4.8
6.8
17
7.6
Egg Shell
Egg yolk
22h : 6.4
36 = 4.4
Skin
Noddy tern
-
Bone
Skin
76
‘
-
= 7.6
117 t 17
319 t wy
Unhatched chick,
gut
Unhatched
Rats
Field rat
chick, skin
and feathers
Muscle
Kidney
Bone
Skin
31 ¢ 5.7
30
+
8.4
33 t 4.6
83 + 13
563 t 4
126 t
8.1
#% Samples were collected seven months after Operation Castle; the
plants were counted 3/3/55 and the birds were counted 3/9 to 4/15/55.