Table A-46. Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Mellu Island at Rongelap Atoll.
Food
137Cs
90Sr
239+240Pu
241Am
Coconut crabs
7.80e+00
2.70e+00
3.15e-03
4.80e-04
Land crabs |
Chickeh muscle
2.50e+00
2.59e+00
2.73e-01
5.33e-03
1.51e-03
2.30e-05
4.80e-04
3.70e-04
Chicken
2.44e+00
1.14e-02
3.40e-04
4.80e-04
Pork muscle
8 .50e+00
3.60e-03
3.60e—-05
2.50e-05
Pork kidney
Pork liver
Pork heart
Bird muscle
Bird eggs
Chicken eggs
Pandanus fruit
1.8le+01
§.15e+00
8.50e+00
z2.50e-02
1.50e-02
2.59e+00
8.82e+00
5 .93e-03
5 .93e-03
3.60e-03
8.50e-04
3.82e-04
5 .33e-03
3.43e+00
1.70e-05
7.90e-05
1.90e-05
2.40e—-04
2.40e-04
2.30e-05
3.69e-05
9.80e-05
2.10e-05
1.60e-04
4.30e-05
4.30e-05
3.70e-04
2.02e-05
Coconut
liver
Chicken gizzard
2.1te+00
1.28e-02
1.60e-04
4.70e-04
fluid
3.65e-01
6.20e-03
4.72e-05
-1.94e-05
Coconut milk
Drinking coconut meat
4.64e+00
3.39e+00
8.98e-02
8.98e-02
1.13e-04
1.13e-04
3.79e-05
3.79e-05
Copra meat
Marshallese cake
Rainwater
Wellwater
4.64e+00
4,.64e+00
2.50e-04
2.40e-03
8.9B8e-02
8.98e-02
6.70e-04
1.00e-03
1.13e-04
1.138e-04
2.40e-06
1.30e-05
3.79e-05
3.79e-05
4.00e-07
4.00e-07
Malolo
2.50e-04
6.70e-04
2.40e-06
4.00e-07
Coffee/tea
2.50e-04
6.70e-04
2.40e-06
4.00e-07
NOTE: Value following e notation indicates power of ten. For example, !.00e-05 is equal
to 1.00 x 107.
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