Table 234, Radionuclide concentrations in fish (January 1972). Nuclide Sample 13765 All fish? 600, 0c, No, of Samples Average High 128 0, 39 2,0 0, 16 6.8 38 1.5 0, 026 Eviscerated whole fish 74 0, 21 7o- “<7 Fish muscle 51 0.075 --- “-- All fish? All fish? 905. 905. Concentration, pCi/g dry weight 128 125 only Low 0, 041 0. 0010 4 All fish includes eviscerated whole fish and those fish where muscle was separated from bone and only the muscle was analyzed, weight for use in the dose code by dividing to g/day of fresh food. The g/day intakes by 3.5, the average wet-to-dry ratio for listed for coconut and arrowroot refer fish from the Atoll. to the dry weight intake of coconut meat Integral doses calculated from the (copra) and processed arrowroot starch. marine survey data are listed in Table Inferred initial ingestion rates assuming 235 for the whole body and bone for 5, the diet at time of return are shown in 10, 30 and 70 yr. Table 236. The major contribution This diet contains only foods to the whole-body dose comes from 1ST a. that are available on islands of the group and 60 Go, while the bone dose comes at the time of return, from 906. as well as from 13765 and meat, birds, bird eggs, 80 Go, and, The third line of the table gives the summation of the dose to each organ from the three isotopes. i.e., domestic coconut crabs, in the case of the southern islands, coconut meat and coconut milk. The bottom entry The 30- and 70-yr integral doses were in the table lists the dose from all radio- calculated assuming the 10-yr post- nuclides listed in the Table 235 footnote. | return diet. In addition to the foods that are available at the time of return, the 10-yr post-return diet includes pandanus Die rrestrial food chain Evaluation of the potential dose to the fruit, breadfruit, arrowroot, coconut returning population via the terrestrial meat, food chain has been structured on the The initial rates of ingestion for each basis of the living patterns in Table 225, island group assuming the 10-yr post- and coconut milk for all islands. The quantity of radionuclides ingested via return diet are listed in Table 237. terrestrial foods was computed from the values are presented in two parts; the rates measured and predicted concentration of of ingestion for the foods immediately activities according to the expected daily available are presented on the left side of diets listed in Table 227, Table 237 under January 1, 1974, while Except for These coconut and arrowroot, the daily intake the rates of ingestion for the foods that of the food items listed in this table refers are to become available 8 yr after return I[-47