Table A-15. Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Aliet Island at Ailuk Atoll.
Food
137Cs
Coconut crabs
,
90Sr
239+240Pu
24iAm
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
Chicken muscle
Chicken liver
Chicken gizzard
2.99e-01
2.23e-01
1.88e-01
2.07e-03
3.82e-02
7.49e-02
9.80e-06
8 .80e-04
1.70e-04
3.90e-05
2.60e-04
1.10e-04
Pork muscle
7.90e-01
1.90e-04
4.70e-06
1.70e-05
Pork kidney
Pork liver
2.70e+00
9.58e-01
6.12e-03
1.24e-03
5.10e-05
1.50e-05
9.90e-05
1.60e-05
Pork heart
7.72e-01
2.94e-03
1.90e-05
1.60e-04
Bird muscle
Bird eggs
Chicken eggs
1.10e-02
6 .60e-03
2.99e-01
5 .50e-04
2.48e-04
2.07e-03
5 .50e-05
5 .50e-05
9.80e-06
5 .00e-06
5 .00e-06
3.90e-05
Pandanus
6.59e-01
1.22e-02
8.64e-06
B.02e-06
Coconut fluid
Coconut milk
Drinking coconut meat
Copra meat
fruit
1.18e-01
5.26e-01
3.84e-01
5.26e-01
2.56e-04
2.35e-03
2.35e-03
2.35e-03
-5 .92e-06
—1.42e-05
-1.42e-05
-1.42e-05
-4.88e-06
-7.94e-06
~7 .94e—-06
~7.94e-06
Marshallese cake
Rainwater
5.26e-01
7.00e-05
2.35e-03
8.90e-05
-1.42e-05
4.00e-07
-7.94e-06
3.00e-07
Coffee/tea
7.00e-05
8.90e-05
4.00e-07
3.00e-07
Wellwater
Malolo
1.80e-04
7.00e-05
1.00e-03
8.90e-05
7 .00e~-07
4.00e-07
2.50e-07
3.00e~-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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