Table A-64. Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Knox Island at Ailinginae Atoll.
Food
137Cs
90Sr
239+240Pu
241Am
Coconut crabs
2.50e+00
2.73e-01
1.51e-03
4.B80e-04
Land crabs
Chicken muscle
Chicken liver
Chicken gizzard
2.50e+00
2.99e-01
2.23e-01
1.8Be-01
2.73e-01
2.07e-03
3.82e-02
7.49e-02
1.51e-03
2.30e-05
3.40e-04
2.60e-04
4.80e-04
3.70e-04
4.80e-04
5.70e-04
Pork muscle
Pork kidney
1.40e+00
2.70e+00
3.70e-04
6.12e-03
6.70e-06
1.70e-05
1.30e-05
9.80e-05
Pork liver
9.58e-01
1.24e-03
7.90e-05
2.10e-05
Pork heart
Bird muscle
Bird eggs
%7.72e-01
1.60e-02
9.60e-03
2.94e-03
4.30e-04
1.93e-04
1.90e-05
8.50e-05
8 .50e-05
1.60e-04
2.80e-05
2.80e-05
Chicken eggs
2.99e-01
2.07e-03
2.30e-05
3.70e-04
Coconut
fluid
1.67e+00
1.19e-03
2.70e-05
5.71e-06
Coconut milk
Drinking coconut meat
Copra meat
Marshallese cake
Rainwater
1.62e+00
1.18e+00
1.62e+00
1.62e+00
7.00e-05
1.09e-02
1.09e-02
1.09e-02
1.09e-02
8.90e-05
6.45e-05
6.45e-05
6.45e-05
6.45e-05
4.00e-07
9.29e-06
9.29e-06
9.29e-06
9.29e-06
3.00e-07
Wellwater
1.80e-04
1.00e-03
7.00e-07
2.50e-07
Malolo
7.00e-05
8.90e-05
4.00e-07
3.00e-07
Coffee/tea
7.00e-05
8.90e-05
4.00e-07
3.00e-07
NOTE: Value, following e notation indicates power of ten. For example, !.00e-05 is equal
to 1.00 x 1077.
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