Table A-26. Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Kabben Island at Wotho Atoll.
Food
137Cs
90Sr
239+240Pu
241Am
Coconut crabs
Land crabs
2.50e+00
2.50e+00
2.73e-01
2.73e-01
1.51e-03
1.51le-03
4.80e-04
4.80e-04
Chicker? muscle
Chicken liver
Chicken gizzard
Pork muscle
Pork kidney
Pork liver
Pork heart
2.99e-01
2.23e-01
1.88e-01
6.60e-01
2.70e+00
9.58e-01
7.72e-01
2.07e-03
3.82e-02
7.49e-02
7.60e~-05
6.12e-03
1.24e-03
2.94e-03
2.70e-05
1.30e-04
4.10e-04
6.70e-06
1.70e-05
7.90e-05
1.90e-05
1.30e-03
2.10e-04
3.00e-04
2.40e-06
9.80e-05
2.10e-05
1.60e-04
Bird muscle
Bird eggs
1.40e-02
8.40e-03
2.00e-04
9.00e-05
5 .50e-05
5.50e-05
1.20e-05
1.20e~-05
Coconut
1.06e-01
6.35e-04
1.46e-05
4.50e-05
Coconut milk
1.60e-01
1.30e-03
5.98e-05
7.30e-05
Drinking coconut meat
Copra meat
1.17e-01
1.60e-01
1.30e-03
1.30e-03
5.98e-05
5.98e-05
7.30e-05
7.30e-05
Marshallese cake
Rainwater
1.60e-01
7.00e-05
1.30e-03
8.90e-05
5.9Be-05
4.00e-07
7.30e-05
3.00e-07
Chicken eggs
fluid
2.99e-01
2.07e-03
2.70e-05
*
1.30e-03
Wellwater
1.80e-04
1.00e-03
7.00e-07
2.50e-07
Malolo
Coffee/tea
7.00e-05
7.00e-05
8.90e-05
8.90e-05
4.00e-07
4.00e-07
3.00e-07
3.00e-07
NOTE: Value following e notation indicates power of ten. For example, 1.00e-05 is equal
to 1.00 x 1079,
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