Table A-47. Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Arbar Island at Rongelap Atoll.
Food
137Cs
90Sr
239+240Pu
241lAm
Coconut crabs
2.52e+00
1.54e+00
1.94e-03
4.80e-04
Land crabs
2.50e+00
2.73e-01
1.51e-03
4.80e-04
Chicken muscle
Chicken liver
Chicken gizzard
Pork muscle
Pork kidney
2.59e+00
2.44e+00
z.lie+00
8 .50e+00
1.8le+01
5 .33e-03
1.14e-02
1.28e-02
3.60e-03
5.93e-03
2.30e-05
3.40e-04
1.60e-04
3.60e-05
1.70e-05
3.70e-04
4.80e-04
4.70e-04
2.50e-05
9.80e-05
Pork liver
Pork heart
Bird muscle
§.15e+00
8.50e+00
2.50e-02
5 .93e-03
3.60e-03
8.50e-04
7.90e-05
1.90e-05
2.40e-04
2.10e-05
1.60e-04
4.30e-05
Chicken eggs
Pandanus fruit
2.59e+00
1.71e+00
5.33e-03
3.24e+00
2.30e-05
1.57e-05
3.70e-04
7.01e-06
Coconut
3.61e-05
Bird eggs
fluid
1.50e-02
3.82e-04
2.40e-04
4.30e-05
7.07e-02
2.01le-03
4.90e-05
Coconut milk
9.53e-01
1.66e-01
1.18e-04
5.90e-05
Drinking coconut meat
Copra meat
Marshallese cake
6.96e-01
9.53e-01
9.53e-01
1.66e-01
1.66e-01
1.66e-01
1.18e-04
1.18e-04
1.18e-04
5.90e-05
5.90e-05
5.90e-05
Rainwater
2.50e-04
6.70e-04
2.40e-06
4.00e-07
Wellwater
Malolo
2.40e-03
2.50e-04
1.00e-03
6 .70e-04
1.30e-05
2.40e-06
4.00e-07
4.00e-07
Coffee/tea
2.50e-04
6.70e-04
2.40e-06
4.00e-07
A-48
Ph Aetnad eH
NOTE: Value, following e notation indicates power of ten. For example, !.00e-05 is equal
to 1.00 x 107.