Measured and
Estimated Radionuclide Concentrations
in Marine Species and Birds at Enewetak Atoll.
pCi/g Wee Weight
Animal
.
a
Fish
137,
|
0.11 e
90,
239+240,
241Am
2.4 X 10 3!
0.52 X 10 ~3f
,0.0033°
0.0011°
,0.0015°
0.021 c
Shellfish?
0.0025!
Clams°
0.112
0.0057°
0.046°
0.0098"
Birds
0.024°
0.011°
ru x 07>
0.52 x 1073
Bird Eges
0.029°
0.19°
2.4 X 1072
0.52 X 107?
Crabs?
1.7°
0.43°
8.8 X io
4.4 X tone
Octopus
|
Turtle
2Includes reef fish and pelagic fish.
Radionuclide concentrations are
assumed to be the same for all specics.
bincludes lobster and marine crabs which
radionuclide concentration in Cissuc.
are
assumed
to have
the same
CIncludes the different species and both muscle tissue and hepatopancreas.
4includes cnconut crabs and land crabs both of which are
same radionuclide concentrations in tissue.
assumed
to have the
fEnewetak Radiological Survey, NVO-140, 1973, Vol. 1.
fVictor Noshkin -
to be published.
Assumed to be the same as fish muscle.
Heaiculated using the fish 239+240py/24145 ratio.
kcalculated assuming the average 239+240py/24lam ratio For all Northern
Islands is 2.
JAssumed to be the sane as
,
fish muscle.
JOE Tay
uwcalu Li
Table 14.