Table 7

26

Mean concentration of 137Cs and 2°Sr in Pandanus and ?°Sr in
coconut crabs collected at Rongelap Atoll from 1957 ~ 1974.
Mean Concentration:
Sample

Type

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

Collection

Area

Rongelap I
"
"
"
"
"

.

Kabelle I
"
"
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Date

Number of

Samples

in pCi/g, dry

137

Cs

1958
1959
196]
1963
197]
1974

9
19
16
13
3
]

114
87
101
69
15
13

1958
1961
1963
1974

4
]
T
2

360
120
170
43

0

Sr

25
15
1m
46
42
40

1957-58

12

14

Kabelle I
Kabelle I
"

1955
1957-58
1974

]
14
3

120
47
4.8

Coconut crab, exoskelton
"

Arbar I
"

1959
1974

2
2

480
64

"
"

Mellu I
"

1959
1974

2
1

1100
240

"
"

Kabelle I
"

1959
1974

3
3

1600
190

"

"
"
"

1974

4

25

These data were taken from the following sources:
Collection Date

1955
1958-1971
1974
b.

Arbar, Busch I

Source

Donaldson, 1955
LRE, unpublished data
This report

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

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\a

a.

Rongelap I

Collection

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