Appendix Table 9
Gamma-Emitting Radionuclides in Tridacna and Hippopus (Giant Clams)
Collected at Bikini Atoll,

Sample
No.
713
714
712

Islet
Bikini

Species
T. squamosa

716

Shell Length

H. hippopus

646

Muscle & Mantle

19 + ll

219 + 2.5

Viscera

9.14 4.1

-

72+

4000 + 49

Muscle & Mantle

15 + 6.9

107 + 1.4

-

2060 + 17

380mm

Viscera

645

Kidney

644
643
642

304mm

641

295mm

640

639

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-

we

an

NAD.

702

701
700

)

T. crocea

95mm,
108mm,

Lilmm

120mm,

140mm,
160mm

9.0 + 3.9
ll + 3.9
_

13 + 8.6

49 +
.76
41 + .67
1980 + 19

193 +

.90

1.9

Muscle & Mantle
‘Viscera
Kidney

16 + 7.4
16 + 9.0
-

122 + 1.5
139 + 1.7
1390 £ 13.

Muscle & Mantle

17 + 6.3

79 +

Viscera

Kidney

Nam

K

350mm

Kidney

647

40

dr

Muscle & Mantle
Viscera
Kidney

715

665

Tissue

Ci

354mm

717

667
666

June 1969

16 + 8.2

-

1.2

135 + 1.7

2330 + 27

Muscle & Mantle
Viscera

20 + 7.6
25 + 11

100 + 1.5
118 + 2.0

Muscle & Mantle

-

134 + 2.0

- Kidney

Viscera
Kidney

-

-

722 + 8.4
70 +
1.0
2150 + 27

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