Table A-43. Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Lomuilal Island at Rongelap Atoll.
Food
137Cs
90Sr
239+240Pu
241Am
Coconut crabs
1.81e+01
6.11e+00
4.90e-03
Land crabs
2.50e+00
2.73e-01
1.5ie-03
4.80e~04
4.80e-04
Chicken muscle
Chicken liver
Chicken gizzard
Pork muscle
Pork kidney
Pork liver
2.59e+00
2.44e+00
z2.11e+00
8 .50e+00
1.81e+01
5.15e+00
5 .33e-03
1.14e-02
1.2Be-02
3.60e-03
5 .93e-03
5 .93e-03
2.30e-05
3.40e-04
1.60e-04
3.60e-05
1.70e-05
7.90e-05
3.70e~04
4.80e~-04
4.70e—-04
2.50e-05
9.80e~-05
2.10e~-05
Pork heart
Bird muscle
B.50e+00
2.50e-02
3.60e-03
8.50e-04
1.90e-05
2.40e-04
1.60e-04
4.30e-05
Bird eggs
Chicken eggs
1.50e-02
2.59e+00
3.82e—-04
§ .33e-03
2.40e-04
2.30e~-05
4.30e-05
3.70e-04
Coconut
fluid
2.81e+00
1.19e-02
1.17e-04
7.37e-05
Coconut milk
Drinking coconut meat
Copra meat
Marshallese cake
2.89e+01
2.11le+01
2.89e+01
2.89e+01
3.12e-01
3.12e-01
3.12e-01
3.12e-01
2.89e-04
2.89e-04
2.89e-04
2.89e-04
1.78e-04
1.78e-04
1.78e-04
1.78e-04
Rainwater
2.50e-04
6.70e-04
2.40e-06
4.00e-07
Wel lwater
Malolo
Coffee/tea
2.40e-03
2.50e-04
2.50e-04
1.00e-03
6.70e-04
6.70e-04
1.30e-05
2.40e-06
2.40e-06
4.00e-07
4.00e-07
4.00e-07
NOTE: Value, following e notation indicates power of ten. For example, 1.00e-05 is equal
to 1.00 x 1077.
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