Appendix Table 24
Radionuclides in Plants Collected on Bikini Island in December, 1974
Radionuclide concentration in pCi/q, dry®
ee.
Oi te
Banana, fruit
Main garden
Papaya, fruit
"
Squash
"
nRatie.
4.40
13.5
15.9
Breadfruit,
House #16 (Pit #9)
4.65
cocanat.. fronds
Well (Pit #11)
2.13
Messerschmidea,
"
Scaevola, leaves
"
leaves
Pandanus, leaves
Pandanus, leaves
"
edible
fruit
Pandanus, inedible
"
House #5
6.67
3.19
3.65
40,
6065
Veg
9.341.
ns©
16
10
+1.
20 42
7.541.
0.10+0.06
0.62+0.08
1050
+0.3
+ 3
794 + 2.3
ns
43
+ 0.3
905,
239,240,
7.74 0.
<0.003
81
+7
<0.004
446
+46
<0.01¢
10 +1.2
<0.05¢
19
+4
ns
92
+2
10
+71.
na°
22
+2
ns
305
+2
235
+34
na
ns
110
+ 1.0
33
+3
147 #13.
na
<0.013+0.0024
ns
ns
1040
«+ 3
3520 +14
163
+0.
255 +22
<0.024
ns
39670
«£14
110
+ 9.8
<0.004
21.542.
ns
"
9.91
5.541.
"
5.77
ns
ns
ns
37 + 0.6
«0.019
The error values for all radionuclide listed except 99Sr and Pu are two-sigma, propagated, counting errors for a
Single sample. The error value for 90Sr and Pu is the two-sigma counting error for a single sample plus an
analytical error.
7)
c.
ns = not significant; the net sample count is less than the two-sigma, propagated, counting error.
na - not analyzed.
d,
Analyses performed by McClellan Central Laboratory, Sacramento, California.
9S
es
. \ %,
wa
Behind house #24 (new Trust Territory numbering system) which is on lagoon beach road between the center baseline
and the first baseline south. Soil Pit #12 was also at this location.