Table A-47. Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Arbar Island at Rongelap Atoll.
Food

137Cs

90Sr

239+240Pu

241lAm

Coconut crabs

2.52e+00

1.54e+00

1.94e-03

4.80e-04

Land crabs

2.50e+00

2.73e-01

1.51e-03

4.80e-04

Chicken muscle
Chicken liver
Chicken gizzard
Pork muscle
Pork kidney

2.59e+00
2.44e+00
z.lie+00
8 .50e+00
1.8le+01

5 .33e-03
1.14e-02
1.28e-02
3.60e-03
5.93e-03

2.30e-05
3.40e-04
1.60e-04
3.60e-05
1.70e-05

3.70e-04
4.80e-04
4.70e-04
2.50e-05
9.80e-05

Pork liver
Pork heart
Bird muscle

§.15e+00
8.50e+00
2.50e-02

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

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

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

Chicken eggs
Pandanus fruit

2.59e+00
1.71e+00

5.33e-03
3.24e+00

2.30e-05
1.57e-05

3.70e-04
7.01e-06

Coconut

3.61e-05

Bird eggs

fluid

1.50e-02

3.82e-04

2.40e-04

4.30e-05

7.07e-02

2.01le-03

4.90e-05

Coconut milk

9.53e-01

1.66e-01

1.18e-04

5.90e-05

Drinking coconut meat
Copra meat
Marshallese cake

6.96e-01
9.53e-01
9.53e-01

1.66e-01
1.66e-01
1.66e-01

1.18e-04
1.18e-04
1.18e-04

5.90e-05
5.90e-05
5.90e-05

Rainwater

2.50e-04

6.70e-04

2.40e-06

4.00e-07

Wellwater
Malolo

2.40e-03
2.50e-04

1.00e-03
6 .70e-04

1.30e-05
2.40e-06

4.00e-07
4.00e-07

Coffee/tea

2.50e-04

6.70e-04

2.40e-06

4.00e-07

A-48

Ph Aetnad eH

NOTE: Value, following e notation indicates power of ten. For example, !.00e-05 is equal
to 1.00 x 107.

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