Table 8. Measured and Estimated Radionuctide Concentrations in Meat and Water for Southern Islands. SOUTHERN ISLANDS 7 [Jinedrol (Alvin through Kidrenen (Keith) )| pCi/g Wet Weight 137. 90. Pork 0.517 0.012¢ 1-1 xX 102 Chicken 0.0217 0.0122 1.1 xX 107? Chicken Epges* 0.021 0.012 1-1 X 10 -3 Groundwater + Cistern Water 0.56 ‘ 0.09 e E 239+240,, . 0.09 0.1 c 0.51 X 10 E 241Am d 0.5 xX 10> d +3 0.5 x 10° c c 0.5 X 10 -3° b 0.26 X 10 eae} -3 c 38 0.7 X 16 O.1 X 10 Units are pCi/t rather than pCi/prAssumed to be the same as chicken meat. Calculated from pig and chicken data from Bikiat Tsland (W.L. Robison -~ to be published); Bikini meat data is multiplied by the ratio of Southern Istarnd soil concentration to the Brkini Island soil concentration to develop the Southern Island meat concentration. the From V. Noshkin, Plutonium Radionuclides in the Crounduaters at Enewectak Atoli, International Atomic Enerpy Agency Symposium, Transuranium Nuclides in the Environment, LAEA-S1-199/33 Vienna, 1976. Calculated Table 6G. Assumed from Pu data and ¢o be the same as the 2394 260p p24 lan ratio listed rat muscle concentrations; Radiolopical Survey Report, NVO-140, Vol. 1, 1973. taken in from Enewetak V. Noshkin = private communication (Memo August 28, 1974). Assumed to be the same as Kwajelein Cistern Water, source of Kuajelein Cistern data, V. Noshkin et al., Evaluation of the Radiological Quality of the Water on Bikini and Eneu Islands in 1975; Dose Assessment Based on Initial Sampling, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Report UCRL~-51879, Part 4, 1977. , 22