Table A-55.

Radionuclide concentrations in local

food products (pCi/g wet weight) for

Rongerik Island at Rongerik Atoll.
Food
Coconut crabs
Land crabs
Chicken muscle
Chicken liver
Chicken gizzard
Pork muscle
Pork kidney
Pork liver
Pork heart

137Cs

90Sr

239+240Pu

241Am

2.50e+00
2.50e+00
2.99e-01
2.23e-01
1.88e-01
1.40e+00
2.70e+00
9.58e-01
7.72e-01

2.73e-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

1.51e-03
1.51e-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
4.80e-04
3.70e-04
4.80e-04
5.70e-04
1.30e-05
9.80e-05
2.10e-05
1.60¢e-04

Bird muscle

1.50e-02

5 .00e-04

6 .50e-05

1.30e-05

Bird eggs
Chicken eggs

9.00e-03
2.99e-01

2.25e-04
2.07e-03

6 .50e-05
2.30e-05

1.30e-05
3.70e-04

Pandanus fruit
Coconut fluid
Coconut milk

2.40e+00
1.03e+00
3.17e+00

4.57e-02
4.63e-03
1.23e-02

1.23e-02
1.23e-02
1.23e-02
1.23e-02
8.90e-05

3.16e-05
3.57e-05
1.64e-05

1.64e-05
1.64e-05
1.64e-05
1.64e-05
4.00e-07

2.00e-04
4.40e-05
2.46e-05

2.50e-07

Drinking coconut meat
Copra meat
Sprouting coconut
Marshallese cake
Rainwater

2.31e+00
3.17e+00
6.53e-01
3.17e+00
7.00e-05

Wellwater

1.80e-04

1.00e-03

7.00e-07

Malolo

7.00e-05

8.90e-05

4.00e-07

Coffee/tea

7.00e-05

8 .90e-05

4.00e-07

2.46e-05
2.46e-05
2.46e-05
2.46e-05
3.00e-07
3.00e-07

3.00e-07

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

to 1.00 x 1075.

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