Table A-68. Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Enibuk Island at Ailinginae Atoll.
Food

137Cs

Coconut crabs
Land crabs
Chicken muscle
Chicken liver
Chicken gizzard
Pork muscle
Pork kidney
Pork liver
Pork heart
Bird muscle
Pandanus

;

fruit

90Sr

239+240Pu

24iAm

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
1.60e-02

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
4.30e-04

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
8.50e-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
1.60e-04
2.80e-05

1.99e+00

5.07e-01

2.05e-05

7.12e-05

Bird eggs
Chicken eggs

9.60e-03
2.99e-01

1.93e-04
2.07e-03

8.50e-05
2.30e-05

2.80e-05
3.70e-04

Coconut fluid
Coconut milk

2.92e-01
2.14e+00

1.31e-03
1.20e-02

1.60e-05
3.76e-05

1.23e-05
2.00e-05

Drinking coconut meat
Copra meat
Marshallese cake
Rainwater
Wellwater
Malolo
Coffee/tea

1.57e+00
2.14e+00
2.14e+00
7.00e-05
1.80e-04
7.00e-05
7.00e-05

1.20e-02
1.20e-02
1.20e-02
8.90e-05
1.00e-03
8.90e-05
8.90e-05

3.76e-05
3.76e-05
3.76e-05
4.00e-07
7.00e-07
4.00e-07
4.00e-07

2.00e-05
2.00e-05
2.00e-05
3.00e-07
2.90e-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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