Table A-14. Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Agulue Island at Ailuk Atoll.
Food
137Cs
90Sr
239+240Pu
24lAm
Coconut crabs
2.50e+00
2.73e-01
1.51e-03
4.80e-04
Land crabs
2.50e+00
2.73e-01
1.51e-03
4.80e-04
Chickew muscle
2.99e-01
2.07e-03
9.80e-06
3.90e-05
Chicken
2.23e-01
3.82e-02
8.80e-04
2.60e-04
Chicken gizzard
1.88e-01
7.49e-02
1.70e-04
1.10e-04
Pork muscle
7.90e-01
2.70e+00
1.90e-04
6.12e-03
4.70e-06
1.70e-05
Pork
9.58e-01
1.24e-03
1.50e-05
1.60e-05
Pork heart
Bird muscle
Bird eggs
Chicken eggs
7.72e-01
1.10e-02
6.60e-03
2.99e-01
2.94e-03
5 .50e-04
2.48e-04
2.07e-03
1.90e-05
5.50e-05
5.50e-05
9.80e-06
1.60e-04
5 .00e-06
5.00e-06
3.90e-05
Pandanus fruit
Coconut fluid
1.09e+00
9.90e-02
z2.0le-02
6.69e-05
1.79e-05
3.07e-06
1.58e-05
1.25e-05
Coconut milk
Drinking coconut meat
Copra meat
Marshallese cake
1.02e+00
7.43e-01
1.02e+00
1.02e+00
6.14e-04
6.14e-04
6.14e-04
6.14e-04
7.36e-06
7.36e-06
7.36e-06
7.36e-06
2.03e-05
2.03e-05
2.03e-05
2.03e-05
Rainwater
7.00e-05
8.90e-05
4.00e-07
3.00e-07
Wellwater
Malolo
Coffee/tea
1.80e-04
7.00e-05
7.00e-05
1.00e-03
8.90e-05
8.90e-05
7.00e-07
4.00e-07
4.00e-07
2.50e-07
3.00e-07
3.00e-07
liver
Pork kidney
liver
5.10e-05
9.90e-05
NOTE; Value following e notation indicates power of ten. For example, !.00e-05 is equal
to 1.00 x 107.
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