Table A-66. Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Sifo Island at Ailinginae Atoll.
Food

137Cs

239+240Pu

241Am

Coconut crabs

1.66e+00

8.86e-02

6.74e-04

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.B80e-04

Pork muscle

1.40e+00

3.70e-04

6 .70e-06

1.30e-05

Pork kidney
Pork liver
Pork heart
Bird muscle
Bird eggs
Chicken eggs

2.70e+00
9.58e-01
7.72e-01
1.60e-02
9.60e-03
2.99e-01

6.12e-03
1.24e-03
2.94e-03
4.30e-04
1.93e-04
2.07e-03

1.70e-05
7.90e-05
1.90e-05
8.50e-05
8.50e-05
2.30e-05

9.80e-05
2.10e-05
1.60e-04
2.80e-05
2.80e-05
3.70e—-04

Pandanus fruit
Coconut fluid

1.32e+00
1.55e-01

QO.
2.70e-03

0.
6 .30e-06

QO.
3.96e-06

6 .45e~-06

liver

Chicken gizzard

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90Sr

1.88e-01

7.49e-02

2.60e-04

5.70e-04

Coconut milk

9.57e-01

2.48e-02

1.50e-05

Drinking coconut meat

6.99e-01

2.48e-02

1.50e-05

6 .45e-06

Copra meat
Marshallese cake

9.57e-01
9.57e-01

2.48e-02
2.4B8e-02

1.50e-05
1.50e-05

6 .45e-06
6 .45e-06

Rainwater

7.00e-05

8.90e-05

4.00e-07

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

Pet ate ear

to 1.00 x 1077.

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