Table A-5.

Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for

Rikuraru Island at Likiep Atoll.
Food

137Cs

90Sr

239+240Pu

24iAm

Coconut crabs

2.50e+00

2.73e-01

1.51e-03

4.80e-04

Land crabs

2.50e+00

2.73e-01

1.51e-03

4.80e-04

Chicken muscle

2.99e-01

2.07e-03

2.30e-05

3.70e-04

Chicken liver
Chicken gizzard
Pork muscle

2.2e3e-01
1.88e-01
1.80e+00

3.82e-02
7.49e-02
2.90e-04

3.40e-04
2.60e-04
7.20e-06

4.80e-04
5.70e-04
1.70e-05

9.58e-01
7.72e-01
9.50e-03
5.70e-03
2.99e-01

1.24e-03
2.94e-03
1.00e-03
4.50e-04
2.07e-03

5.50e-05
-~3.90e-05
4.60e-05
4.60e-05
2.30e-05

-6 .80e-06
1.40e-04
1.00e-05
1.00e-05
3.70e-04

Pork kidney

2.70e+00

Pandanus

Pork liver
Pork heart
Bird muscie
Bird eggs
Chicken eggs
fruit

6.12e-03

1.50e-04

8.60e-05

2.91e-01

3.80e-02

3.08e-05

1.55e-05

Breadfruit
Coconut fluid

2.72e-01
7.90e-02

1.06e-03
1.52e-04

-6 .30e-07
1.48e-05

oO.
2.88e-05

Coconut milk

4.78e-01

1.39e-03

3.55e-05

4.68e-05

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

3.49e-01
4.78e-01
4.7B8e-01
7.00e-05
1.80e-04
7.00e-05
7.00e-05

1.39e-03
1.39e-03
1.39e-03
8.90e-05
1.00e-03
8.90e-05
8.90e-05

3.55e-05
3.55e-05
3.55e-05
4.00e-07
7.00e-07
4.00e-07
4.00e-07

4.68e-05
4.68e-05
4.68e-05
3.00e-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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