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

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