Table A-46. Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Mellu Island at Rongelap Atoll.
Food

137Cs

90Sr

239+240Pu

241Am

Coconut crabs

7.80e+00

2.70e+00

3.15e-03

4.80e-04

Land crabs |
Chickeh muscle

2.50e+00
2.59e+00

2.73e-01
5.33e-03

1.51e-03
2.30e-05

4.80e-04
3.70e-04

Chicken

2.44e+00

1.14e-02

3.40e-04

4.80e-04

Pork muscle

8 .50e+00

3.60e-03

3.60e—-05

2.50e-05

Pork kidney
Pork liver
Pork heart
Bird muscle
Bird eggs
Chicken eggs
Pandanus fruit

1.8le+01
§.15e+00
8.50e+00
z2.50e-02
1.50e-02
2.59e+00
8.82e+00

5 .93e-03
5 .93e-03
3.60e-03
8.50e-04
3.82e-04
5 .33e-03
3.43e+00

1.70e-05
7.90e-05
1.90e-05
2.40e—-04
2.40e-04
2.30e-05
3.69e-05

9.80e-05
2.10e-05
1.60e-04
4.30e-05
4.30e-05
3.70e-04
2.02e-05

Coconut

liver

Chicken gizzard

2.1te+00

1.28e-02

1.60e-04

4.70e-04

fluid

3.65e-01

6.20e-03

4.72e-05

-1.94e-05

Coconut milk
Drinking coconut meat

4.64e+00
3.39e+00

8.98e-02
8.98e-02

1.13e-04
1.13e-04

3.79e-05
3.79e-05

Copra meat
Marshallese cake
Rainwater
Wellwater

4.64e+00
4,.64e+00
2.50e-04
2.40e-03

8.9B8e-02
8.98e-02
6.70e-04
1.00e-03

1.13e-04
1.138e-04
2.40e-06
1.30e-05

3.79e-05
3.79e-05
4.00e-07
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, !.00e-05 is equal

to 1.00 x 107.

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