15
0.3 pCi/g.

Nine species of fish were collected from four
be B88at Ryan atoll.

Qf the fallout radionuclides commonly detected (

90sr, and

239,240py) jiron-55 was the most abundant with yslues up to “570 sel/s of

dry weight.

Concentrations of 60¢0 ranged up to 16 pCi/g of dry viscera

from mullet collected near Bikini Island. Most of the other tissues contained Tess than 5 pCi of
°%Co per gram. Cesium-137 values were mostly
bela 1 pCi/g, however, the convict surgeon from Nam contained about 4.5 pCi
7Cs per gram. Most of the fish tissues analyzed also contained less

than a pci/g of 90sr and 239,240py.

The highest values of 90sr (2.6 pci/g)

and 239,240Pu (5.6 pCi/g) were measured in the viscera of mullet from Nam.
Other than 55Fe, naturally occurring 40K was the most abundant radionuclide

in the fish tissues analyzed. The average _valug,of this radionuclide was 9
pCi/g versus 47, 2.6, and 0.65 pCi/g for 25Fe, 9¢o and 137 Cs, respectively.

Although coconut, Pandanus, and breadfruit seedings have been planted
on Bikini Island, only a few of the plants had begun to bear fruit in 1974
or 1975. Thus, most of the plant tissues sampled were leaves from these
young plants. Results of the analyses of the plant samples are given in
Appendix Tables 24 and 25. Cesium-137 was the most_abundant radionuclide
in most of the plant samples.

Concentrations of 137¢5 in 15 samples of

coconut fronds ranged from 58 to 649 pCi/g (dry) and averaged 154 pCi/g.

The highest 37Cs value was in the first Pandanus fruit produced on one of
the new plants.
Even though it was immature, the Pandanus fruit was picked
and analyzed. The inedible portion of the fruit had a [37Cs level of 3,670

pCi/g, while the edible portion had 3,520 pCi of 137¢5 and 255 pci of 90Sr.

Of the plant tissues analyzed 90Sr levels were highest (251 to 446 pCi/g)
in the leaves of the new breadfruit plants.

Cesium-137 values in coconut leaves were usually orgater than the !37cs
vaiue in surface soil from the same area. The highest. 7Cs values in plants

were not, however, from the areas having

the soil.

the highest

7Cs concentration in

In fact one of the higher 13/Cs values was in coconut fronds from

the area (Pit #11) which had the lowest 137Cs value in the surface soil.

Plutonium-239,240 values were less than 1 pCi/g in the plant tissues

sampled and were less than 0.05 pCi/g in the edible portions of the plants
analyzed.
2.

Soil

Both profile and surface soil samples were taken from Bikini, Enidrik
and Nam Islands. Most of the samples were analyzed for gamma-emitting radio-

nuclides, 90Sr,* and plutonium,* while selected samples were analyzed for
Fe. Results of all analyses, except °°Fe, are shown in Appendix Tables
26 through 32 (Bikini), 33 (Enidrik) and 34 through 36 (Nam). Results of
��’Fe analyses are in Appendix Tables 27, 28 and 37.

the soil profiles on Bikini Island are shown on Figure 5.

The locations of

As found in past surveys on Bikini Atoll, most of the fallout

*5ome of the analyses for 29sr and Pu were performed by McClellan Central
Laboratory, Sacramento, California

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