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Table 7

Mean concentration of 137Cs and 9°Sr in Pandanus and ?°Sr in
coconut crabs collected at Rongelap Atoll from 1957 - 1974.
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Mean Concentration

Sample

Collection

Number of

Rongelap I
"
"
"
"
‘

1958
1959
196]
1963
1971
1974

9
19
16
13
3
1

114
87
101
69
15
13

25

Kabelte I
"
"
Lomuilal, Lukuen I

1958
1961
1963
1974

4
]
]
2

360
120
170
43

46

Rongelap |

1957-58

12

14

Kabelle I
Kabelle |
"

1955
1957-58
1974

J
14
3

120
47
4.8

skelton
"

Arbar I
"

1959
1974

2
2

480
64

"
“

Mellu I
"

1959
1974

2
1]

1100
240

"

Kabelle I

1959

3

1600

Type

Pandanus leaves
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
Coconut crab, muscle
"

"
"
"
Coconut crab, exo-

"

a.

Area

Arbar, Busch I

"

Date

1974

1974

Samples

4

3

ee pCi/g, dry
Cs

Sr

15
1]

42
40
24

190

These data were taken from the following sources:
Collection Date

Source

1955

Donaldson, 1955

1974

This report

1958-1971
b.

Collection

LRE, unpublished data

27 pCi/g, wet,multiplied by a wet/dry ratio of 4,5.

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