Table A-70.

Radionuclide concentrations in local

food products (pCi/g wet weight) for

Kuobuen Island at Ailinginae Atoll.
Food

137Cs

90Sr

239+240Pu

24iAm

Coconut crabs

2.50e+00

2.73e-01

1.51le-03

4.80e-04

Land crabs
Chicken muscle
Chicken liver
Chicken gizzard
Pork muscle
Pork kidney
Pork liver
Pork heart

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
2.07e-03
3.82e-02
7.49e-02
3.70e~04
6.12e-03
1.24e-03
2.94e-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
3.70e-04
4.80e-04
5.70e-04
1.30e-05
9.80e-05
2.10e-05
1.60e-04

Bird muscle

1.60e-02

4.30e-04

8.50e-05

2.80e-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

2.24e-01
2.05e+00

0.
0.

QO.
0.

0.
0.

Drinking coconut meat
Copra meat
Marshallese cake

1.50e+00
2.05e+00
2.05e+00

QO.
0.
0.

oO.
QO.
0.

QO.
0.
0.

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.Q0e-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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