Table A-53. Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Latoback Island at Rongerik Atoll.
Food
137Cs
90Sr
239+240Pu
241Am
Coconut crabs
4.17e+00
4.62e-01
3.52e-03
4.80e-04
Land crabs
Chicken muscle
Chicken liver
Chicken gizzard
Pork muscle
Pork kidney
Pork liver
Pork heart
2.50e+00
2.99e-01
2.ese-01
1.88e-01
1.40e+00
2.70e+00
9.58e-01
7.72e-01
2.73e-01
2.07e-03
3.82e-02
7.49e-02
3.70e-04
6.12e-03
1.24e-03
2.94e-03
1.5te-03
2.30e-05
3.40e-04
2.60e-04
6.70e-06
1.70e-05
7.90e-05
1.90e-05
4.80e-04
3.70e-04
4.80e-04
5.70e-04
1.30e-05
9.80e~-05
2.10e-05
1.60e-04
Bird muscle
1.50e-02
5 .00e~04
6.50e-05
1.30e-05
Bird eggs
Chicken eggs
Pandanus fruit
Coconut fluid
9.00e-03
2.99e-01
8.73e-01
8.58e-01
2.25e-04
2.07e-03
4.57e-02
Q.
6 .50e-05
2.30e-05
1.68e-04
QO.
1.30e-05
3.70e-04
1.60e-04
0.
Coconut milk
3.94e+00
0.
0.
0.
Drinking coconut meat
2.87e+00
0.
QO.
0.
Copra meat
Marshallese cake
3.94e+00
3.94e+00
QO.
0.
QO.
0.
QO.
0.
Wel lwater
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
Rainwater
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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