Table A-52. Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Jedibberdib Island at Rongerik Atoll.
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

2.50e+00
2.99e-01
2.23e-01

1.88e-01

2.73e-01
2.07e-03
3.82e-02

7.49e-02

1.51e-03
2.30e-05
3.40e-04

4.80e-04
3.70e-04
4.80e-04

Pork muscle
Pork kidney

1.40e+00
2.70e+00

3.70e-04
6.12e-03

6.70e-06
1.70e-05

1.30e-05
9.80e-05

Pork liver
Pork heart
Bird muscle
Bird eggs
Chicken eggs
Coconut fluid
Coconut milk
Drinking coconut meat
Copra meat
Marshallese cake

9.58e-01
7.72e-01
1.50e-02
9.00e-03
2.99e-01
3.58e-01
3.28e+00
2.40e+00
3.28e+00
3.28e+00

1.24e-03
2.94e-03
5 .00e-04
2.25e-04
2.07e-03
0.
0.
QO.
0.
0.

7.90e—-05
1.90e-05
6 .50e-05
6 .50e-05
2.30e-05
0.
0.
QO.
0.
0.

2.10e-05
1.60e-04
1.30e-05
1.30e-05
3.70e-04
0.
0.
oO.
0.
0.

Wellwater
Malolo
Coffee/tea

1.80e-04
7.00e-05
7.00e-05

1.00e-03
8.90e-05
8.90e-05

7.00e-07
4.00e-07
4.00e-07

2.50e-07
3.00e-07
3.00e-07

Chicken gizzard

Rainwater

7.00e-05

8.90e-05

2.60e-04

4.00e-07

5 .70e—-04

3.00e-07

NOTE: Value, following e notation indicates power of ten. For example, 1.00e-05 is equal
to 1.00 x 1077.

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