Table A-40.

Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for

Borukka Island at Rongelap Atoll.
y

Food

137Cs

90Sr

239+240Pu

241Am

Coconut crabs

2.50e+00

2.73e-01

1.51e-03

4.80e-04

Land crabs
Chicken muscle
Chicken liver
Chicken gizzard
Pork muscle
Pork kidney
Pork liver

2.50e+00
2.99e9%00
z.44e+00
2.11e+00
8.50e+00
1.B81e+01
5.15e+00

2.73e-01
5.33e-03
1.14e-02
1.28e-02
3.60e-03
5 .93e-03
5.93e-03

1.51e-03
2.30e-05
3.40e-04
1.60e-04
3.60e—-05
1.70e-05
7.90e-05

4.80e-04
3.70e-04
4.80e-04
4.70e-04
2.50e-05
9.80e-05
z2.10e-05

Pork heart

8.50e+00

3.60e-03

1.90e-05

1.60e-04

Bird muscle
Bird eggs
Chicken eggs
Pandanus fruit
Coconut fluid

2.50e-02
1.50e-02
2.59e+00
3.36e+00
5.10e-01

8.50e-04
3.82e-04
5 .33e-03
3.50e+00
1.81e-02

2.40e-04
2.40e-04
2.30e-05
9.77e-05
3.82e-05

4.30e-05
4.30e-05
3.70e-04
3.70e-05
1.87e-05

Coconut milk

4.05e+00

1.70e-01

9.17e-05

3.00e-05

Drinking coconut meat
Copra meat

2.96e+00
4.05e+00

1.70e-01
1.70e-O1

9.17e-05
9.17e-05

3.00e-05
3.00e-05

Marshallese cake
Rainwater
Wellwater

4.05e+00
2.50e-04
2.40e-03

1.70e-01
6 .70e-04
1,.00e-03

9.17e-05
2.40e-06
1.30e-05

3.00e-05
4.00e-07
4.00e-07

Malolo
Coffee/tea

2.50e-04
2.50e-04 .

6 .70e-04
6 .70e—-04

2.40e-06
2.40e-06

4.00e-07
4.00e-07

NOTE: Value following e notation indicates power of ten. For example, |.00e-05 is equal

to 1.00 x 107-5,

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