Table A-13.
Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Bigen Island at Ailuk Atoll.
Food
137Cs
90Sr
239+240Pu
241Am
Coconut crabs
2.50e+00
2.73e-01
1.51e-03
1.51e-03
4.80e-04
4.80e-04
ity
Chicken muscle
2.99e-01
2.07e-03
9.80e-06
3.90e-05
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Chicken liver
Chicken gizzard
2.23e-01
1.88e-01
3.82e-02
7.49e-02
8.80e-04
1.70e-04
2.60e-04
1.10e-04
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Pork
Pork
Pork
Bird
2.70e+00
9.58e-01
7.72e-01
1.10e-02
6.12e-03
1.24e-03
2.94e-03
5 .50e-04
5.10e-05
1.50e-05
1.90e-05
5 .50e~-05
9.90e-05
1.60e-05
1.60e-04
5 .00e-06
Bird eggs
Chicken eggs
Pandanus fruit
Coconut fluid
6.60e-03
2.99e-01
3.61e-O1 ©
2.54e-01
2.48e-04
2.07e-03
1.07e-02
1.49e-04
5.50e-05
9.80e-06
2.55e-06
6 .06e-06
5.00e-06
3.90e-05
9 .33e-06
1.11e-05
Coconut milk
Drinking coconut meat
Copra meat
Marshallese cake
1.61e+00
1.18e+00
1.61e+00
1.61e+00
1.36e-03
1.36e-03
1.36e-03
1.36e-03
1.45e-05
1.45e-05
1.45e-05
1.45e-05
1.80e-05
1.80e-05
1.80e-05
1.80e-05
Land crabs
Pork muscle
kidney
liver
heart
muscle
2.50e+00
7.90e-01
2.73e-01
1.90e-04
4.70e-06
1.70e-05
Rainwater
7.00e-05
8.90e-05
4.00e-07
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, 1.00e-05 is equal
to 1.00 x 1077.
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