Table A-33. Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Pokon Island at Ujelang Atoll.
Food
137Cs
90Sr
239+240Pu
24iAm
Coconut crabs
Land crabs
Chicken muscle
2.50e+00
2.50e+00
2.99e-01
2.73e-01
2.73e-01
2.07e-03
1.51e-03
1.51e-03
2.30e-05
4.80e-04
4.80e-04
3.70e-04
Chicken
2.23e-01
3.82e-02
3.40e-04
4.80e-04
Chicken gizzard
Pork muscle
liver
1.88e-01
4.40e-01
7.49e-02
5 .50e-04
1.60e-04
1.80e-05
4.70e-04
1.10e~-05
Pork kidney
2.70e+00
6.12e-03
1.70e-05
9.80e-05
Pork liver
Pork heart
Bird muscle
Bird eggs
Chicken eggs
9.58e-01
7.72e-01
1.10e-02
6 .60e-03
2.99e-01
1.24e-03
2.94e-03
2.00e-04
9.00e-05
2.07e-03
1.50e-04
1.00e-06
2.00e-05
2.00e-05
2.30e-05
1.80e-05
1.70e~04
8 .00e-06
8.00e-06
3.70e-04
Pandanus
1.27e-01
9.50e-03
3.02e-06
9.33e-06
Coconut fluid
Coconut milk
fruit
1.99e-02
2.29e-01
0.
0.
0.
0.
0.
0.
Drinking coconut meat
Copra meat
Marshallese cake
Rainwater
Wellwater
1.67e-01
2.29e-01
2.29e-01
7.00e-05
1.80e-04
0.
Q.
QO.
8.90e-05
1.00e-03
0.
0.
QO.
4.00e-07
7.00e-07
0.
QO.
0.
3.00e-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, |.00e-05 is equal!
to 1.00 x 1079.
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