Table 2.
Gross levels of beta radioactivity in the reef fish collected at Rongelap
and Ailinginae Atolls, 1954 through 1957, expressed as uc/kg wet tissue
Locality
Date of
Number of
collection specimens
Muscle
Bone
Liver
Viscera
or stomach
Whole
fish
contents
Rongelap
Atoll
Rongelap I.
Kabelle I.
1/25/55
10/22/55
8/3 /56
22
33
19
0.034
0.009
0.059
7/17/57
50
73
3/26/54
7/16/54
12
32
2.7
0.50
34
15
li
36
0.026
0.030
0.027
0.12
0.21
0.10
0.015
0.038
0.039
1/29/55
10/21/55
8/3 /56
7/18/57
27
0.017
0.30
0.070
0.15
0.083
9.021
13.0
2.9
0.49
2.0
0.60
0.71
0.064
200.0
22.0
3.2
1.6
1.3
0.28
1.6
0.044
0.028
510.0
36.0
3.6
0.12
0.049
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Ailinginae
Atoll
Enibuk I.
10/23/55
7/11/57
28
32
51
0.27
0.16
0,030