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.

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