Table A-64. Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Knox Island at Ailinginae Atoll.
Food

137Cs

90Sr

239+240Pu

241Am

Coconut crabs

2.50e+00

2.73e-01

1.51e-03

4.B80e-04

Land crabs
Chicken muscle
Chicken liver
Chicken gizzard

2.50e+00
2.99e-01
2.23e-01
1.8Be-01

2.73e-01
2.07e-03
3.82e-02
7.49e-02

1.51e-03
2.30e-05
3.40e-04
2.60e-04

4.80e-04
3.70e-04
4.80e-04
5.70e-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

9.58e-01

1.24e-03

7.90e-05

2.10e-05

Pork heart
Bird muscle
Bird eggs

%7.72e-01
1.60e-02
9.60e-03

2.94e-03
4.30e-04
1.93e-04

1.90e-05
8.50e-05
8 .50e-05

1.60e-04
2.80e-05
2.80e-05

Chicken eggs

2.99e-01

2.07e-03

2.30e-05

3.70e-04

Coconut

fluid

1.67e+00

1.19e-03

2.70e-05

5.71e-06

Coconut milk
Drinking coconut meat
Copra meat
Marshallese cake
Rainwater

1.62e+00
1.18e+00
1.62e+00
1.62e+00
7.00e-05

1.09e-02
1.09e-02
1.09e-02
1.09e-02
8.90e-05

6.45e-05
6.45e-05
6.45e-05
6.45e-05
4.00e-07

9.29e-06
9.29e-06
9.29e-06
9.29e-06
3.00e-07

Wellwater

1.80e-04

1.00e-03

7.00e-07

2.50e-07

Malolo

7.00e-05

8.90e-05

4.00e-07

3.00e-07

Coffee/tea

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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