Table 2.
Concentrations ot *Uk, 8UCo, 74sr, and +3’Cs in Food Plants Collected on Bikini
Island in November 1971 and March 1972
Plant tyne
Collection
date
Tissue
Lettuce
Papaya #1
Fruit
March 1972
Fruit
March 1972
23°33
(edible)
Fruit
(fibrous)
November 1971
12
Seeds
Pandanus
Fruit
"
"
Coconut #2
Coconut #3
1860+L0
320
160+ 1
72
NS
290= 1
69
NS
200+ 1
220
17
#2
0.13+0.12
March 1972
14
+4
NS
31
+3
November 1971
4,442.1
Milk
November 1971
93+ 0.5
110+ 0.7
NS
100+ 1
+4
+25
NAc
NA
+3
+4
+ 08
+ 2.2
190
110+ 1
NS
70S r
360
We 0.4
NS
NS
NS
4.3+2.5
11
82 0.4
NS
1,671.3
3.91.9
November 1971
270+ 2
0,05+0.03
+2
3.4+1.5
140+ 1
NS
7,570.6
November 1971
November 1971
November 1971
Meat
NS?
oCife, dryv*
23'C3
March 1972
Meat
Milk
Meat
"
7,146.1
November 1971
Leaves
Coconut #1
"
PUC5
March 1972
Papaya 72
"
wUe
Entire
Seeds
"
‘
+1.9
NA
NA
0.88+ 0,04
< .22
147+ 1
NA
Coconut #4
"
Coconut #5
Meat
Milk
Meat
November 1971
November 1971
November 1971
2,542.0
3,041.8
15 +6
NS
NS
NS
100+ 0.8
77+ 0.6
270+ 2
NA
NA
NA
Coconut
Fronds (old)
Fronds (new)
November 1971
November 1971
7.0+5.0
14 +5
NS
NS
310+ 3
220+ 2
NA
NA
"
*
gee ref,
+
Milk
Ll.
The error terms
errors for
40
for
November 1971
60
K,
2.1+1.3
NS
33+ 0.3
NA
137
Co,
and
Cs
are
two-rsigma,
propagated,
counting errors.
The
Sr are one-sigma, propagated, counting errors.
NS = not significant.
The net sample count is less than the two-sigma, propagated,
counting error.
é NA = not analyzed.
Table 3.
Some Radionuclides in Water Samples Collected with a Large Volume Filter Sorption Bed
from Bikini Atoll, May 1972*
Collection
location
Bravo Crater
(bottom)
Bravo Crater
(surface)
Bokdrolul Pass
(ebb tide)
Bokdrolul Pass
Liters
Fraction
Sampled
Particulate* 3785
Solubled
3785
Particulate
3785
Soluble
3785
Particulate
4088
Soluble
4088
Particulate
4921
Bikini Island
Particulate
(flood tide)
Soluble
(seaward reef) Soluble
Bikini Island
(Lagoon)
Ocean between
Bikini and
Enewet ak9
Bikini Island
(freshwater
*
well)
Particulate
Soluble
Particulate
4921
1620
1620
2271
2271
4898
Soluble
4898
Particulate
Soluble
1893
1893
2
«
.
:
Radionuclide concenrration in pci/m
SUco
Si +3
28 +8
6,5+1.4
<10
6.0+7.3
1,440.6
2,140.7
NS
1l3/cs
12) +1
<14 +
NSS
< 6
NS
<1.0
NS
NS
1,541.5
9,246.6
NS
NS
21
54
+3
+9
NS
NS
6.2+5.4
5.6+1.0
folky
97 4
€20
9.6+1.3
<16
6.4+1.2
<2.3
1.5+0.8
NS
NS
NS
NS
NS
NS
7.74+1.0
+1
+60
2.5+ 1.7
NS
NS
21
990
207 ny
27 +2
160 +11
0.5+ 0.3
<12
NS
3.04 0.5
NS
NS
NS
14
<2
+3.7
2.0+ 0.8
NS
0.76+ 0.38
NS
NS
NS
<7
NS
-
ooh
70 +5
<30
8.2+1.4
<22
5.4+1.1
<2.9
:
1,8+0.9
NS
NS
NS
L.1+l.1
NS
NS
NS
NS
34
See ref. 11.
Errors are two-sigma, propagated, counting errors.
Particulate--that portion retained by the 0.3 u filter.
Soluble--chat portion which passes through the 0.3 u filter and is sorbed by the Al 0, beds.
ENS*-not significant.
The net sample count is less than the twoesigma, propagated counting error.
8This sample was collected over a 6 hr period between the following positions:
11°29'5S" by
164°58'0" E to 11°24'5" N by 164018'0" E,