Table A-53. Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Latoback Island at Rongerik Atoll.
Food

137Cs

90Sr

239+240Pu

241Am

Coconut crabs

4.17e+00

4.62e-01

3.52e-03

4.80e-04

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

2.50e+00
2.99e-01
2.ese-01
1.88e-01
1.40e+00
2.70e+00
9.58e-01
7.72e-01

2.73e-01
2.07e-03
3.82e-02
7.49e-02
3.70e-04
6.12e-03
1.24e-03
2.94e-03

1.5te-03
2.30e-05
3.40e-04
2.60e-04
6.70e-06
1.70e-05
7.90e-05
1.90e-05

4.80e-04
3.70e-04
4.80e-04
5.70e-04
1.30e-05
9.80e~-05
2.10e-05
1.60e-04

Bird muscle

1.50e-02

5 .00e~04

6.50e-05

1.30e-05

Bird eggs
Chicken eggs
Pandanus fruit
Coconut fluid

9.00e-03
2.99e-01
8.73e-01
8.58e-01

2.25e-04
2.07e-03
4.57e-02
Q.

6 .50e-05
2.30e-05
1.68e-04
QO.

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

Coconut milk

3.94e+00

0.

0.

0.

Drinking coconut meat

2.87e+00

0.

QO.

0.

Copra meat
Marshallese cake

3.94e+00
3.94e+00

QO.
0.

QO.
0.

QO.
0.

Wel lwater

1.80e-04

1.00e-03

7.00e-07

2.50e-07

Malolo
Coffee/tea

7.00e-05
7.00e-05

8.90e-05
8.90e-05

4.00e-07
4.00e-07

3.00e-07
3.00e-07

Rainwater

7.00e-05

8.90e-05

4.00e-07

3.00e-07

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

to 1.00 x 1077.

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