Table A-63. Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Ucchuwanen Island at Ailinginae Atoll.
Food
137Cs
90Sr
2394+240Pu
241Am
Coconut crabs
2.50e+00
2.73e-01
1.51e-03
4.80e-04
Land crabs
Chicken muscle
2.50e+00
2.99e-01
2.73e-01
2.07e-03
1.51e-03
2.30e-05
4.80e-04
3.70e-04
Chicken
2.23e-01
3.82e-02
3.40e-04
4.80e-04
Chicken gizzard
Pork muscle
Pork kidney
liver
1.88e-01
1.40e+00
2.70e+00
7.49e-02
3.70e~04
6.12e-03
2.60e-04
6 .70e-06
1.70e-05
5.70e-04
1.30e-05
9.80e-05
Pork
9.58e-01
1.24e-03
7.90e-05
2.10e-05
Pork heart
Bird muscle
Bird eggs
Chicken eggs
Pandanus fruit
liver
7.72e-01
{.60e-02
9.60e-03
2.99e-01
1.78e+00
2.94e~03
4.30e-04
1.93e-04
2.07e-03
4.26e-01
1.90e-05
B.50e-05
8 .50e-05
2.30e-05
0.
1.60e-04
2.80e-05
2.80e-05
3.70e-04
9.76e-06
Coconut
fluid
4.30e-01
2.88e-03
-6 .50e-06
0.
Coconut milk
Drinking coconut meat
Copra meat
1.80e+00
1.32e+00
1.80e+00
2.64e-02
2.64e-02
2.64e-02
~1.54e-05
-1.54e-05
-1.54e-05
QO.
QO.
QO.
Marshallese cake
Rainwater
1.80e+00
7.00e-05
2.64e-02
8.90e-05
-1.54e-05
4.00e-07
0.
3.00e-07
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
NOTE: Value, following e notation indicates power of ten. For example, !.00e-05 is equal
to 1.00 x 107’.
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