Table A~-34.
Radionuclide concentrations in local
food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Ujelang Island at Ujelang Atoll.
Food
137Cs
90Sr
Coconut crabs
Land crabs
Chicken muscle
2.50e+00
2.50e+00
2.99e-01
Chicken
liver
239+240Pu
241Am
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
2.23e-01
3 .82e-02
3.40e-04
4.80e-04
Chicken gizzard
1.88e-01
7.49e-02
1.60e-04
4.70e-04
Pork muscle
4.40e-01
5.50e-04
1.80e-05
1.10e-05
Pork kidney
Pork liver
2.70e+00
2.51e-01
6.12e-03
-1.96e-03
1.70e-05
1.50e-04
9.80e-05
1.80e-05
Pork heart
3.34e-01
3.82e-03
1.00e-06
1.70e-04
Bird muscle
Bird eggs
Chicken eggs
Pandanus fruit
Breadfruit
1.10e-02
6.60e-03
z2.99e-01
2.60e-01
5.60e-01
2.00e-04
9.00e-05
2.07e-03
2.12e-02
§.21le-03
2.00e-05
2.00e-05
2.30e-05
9.17e-06
9.14e-06
8.00e-06
8.00e-06
3.70e-04
6 .36e-06
1.30e-05
Coconut fluid
Coconut milk
Drinking coconut meat
Copra meat
Marshallese cake
Papaya
1.03e-01
5.40e-01
3.94e-01
5.40e-01
5.40e-01
2.05e-01
3.16e~-04
2.90e-03
2.90e-03
2.90e~-03
2.90e-03
0.
1.14e-05
2.72e-05
2.72e-05
2.72e-05
2.72e-05
0.
2.00e-05
3.40e-05
3.40e-05
3.40e-05
3.40e-05
0.
Squash
4.43e-01
QO.
QO.
0.
Banana
3.20e-02
0.
0.
QO.
Rainwater
Wellwater
7.00e-05
1.80e-04
8.90e-05
1.00e-03
4.00e-07
7.00e-07
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 107>.
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