Table A-42. Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Eniaetok Island at Rongelap Atoll.
Food

137Cs

90Sr

239+240Pu

241Am

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

Chickeh muscle

2.59e+00

5.33e-03

2.30e-05

3.70e-04

Chicken

2.44e+00

1.14e-02

3.40e-04

4.80e-04

liver

Chicken gizzard

2.11e+00

1.28e-02

1.60e-04

4.70e-04

Pork muscle
Pork kidney

8.50e+00
1.81le+01

3.60e-03
5.93e-03

3.60e-05
1.70e-05

2.50e-05
9.80e-05

Pork liver
Pork heart
Bird muscle
Bird eggs
Chicken eggs

5.15e+00
8.50e+00
2.50e-02
1.50e-02
2.59e+00

5 .93e-03
3.60e-03
8.50e-04
3.62e-04
5.33e-03

7.90e-05
1.90e-05
2.40e-04
2.40e-04
2.30e-05

2.10e-05
1.60e-04
4.30e-05
4.30e-05
3.70e-04

Pandanus

1.56e+01

6.14e+00

6.55e-05

2.50e-05

Coconut fluid

fruit

1.03e+00

6.03e-03

9.96e-05

2.40e-04

Coconut milk
Drinking coconut meat
Copra meat
Marshallese cake
Rainwater

1.00e+01
7.32e+00
1.00e+01
1.00e+01
2.50e-04

5.55e-02
5.55e-02
5 .55e-02
5.55e-02
6.70e-04

2.39e-04
2.39e-04
2.39e-04
2.39e-04
2.40e-06

3.90e-04
3.90e-04
3.90e-04
3.90e-04
4.00e-07

Wellwater

2.40e-03

1.00e-03

1.30e-05

4.00e-07

Malolo

2.50e-04

6.70e-04

2.40e-06

4.00e-07

Coffee/tea

2.50e-04

6.70e-04

2.40e-06

4.00e-07

NOTE: Value following e notation indicates power of ten. For example, 1.00e-05 is equal

to 1.00 x 107.

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