Table A-13.

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

Bigen Island at Ailuk Atoll.
Food

137Cs

90Sr

239+240Pu

241Am

Coconut crabs

2.50e+00

2.73e-01

1.51e-03

1.51e-03

4.80e-04

4.80e-04

ity

Chicken muscle

2.99e-01

2.07e-03

9.80e-06

3.90e-05

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Chicken liver
Chicken gizzard

2.23e-01
1.88e-01

3.82e-02
7.49e-02

8.80e-04
1.70e-04

2.60e-04
1.10e-04

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Pork
Pork
Pork
Bird

2.70e+00
9.58e-01
7.72e-01
1.10e-02

6.12e-03
1.24e-03
2.94e-03
5 .50e-04

5.10e-05
1.50e-05
1.90e-05
5 .50e~-05

9.90e-05
1.60e-05
1.60e-04
5 .00e-06

Bird eggs
Chicken eggs
Pandanus fruit
Coconut fluid

6.60e-03
2.99e-01
3.61e-O1 ©
2.54e-01

2.48e-04
2.07e-03
1.07e-02
1.49e-04

5.50e-05
9.80e-06
2.55e-06
6 .06e-06

5.00e-06
3.90e-05
9 .33e-06
1.11e-05

Coconut milk
Drinking coconut meat
Copra meat
Marshallese cake

1.61e+00
1.18e+00
1.61e+00
1.61e+00

1.36e-03
1.36e-03
1.36e-03
1.36e-03

1.45e-05
1.45e-05
1.45e-05
1.45e-05

1.80e-05
1.80e-05
1.80e-05
1.80e-05

Land crabs

Pork muscle

kidney
liver
heart
muscle

2.50e+00

7.90e-01

2.73e-01

1.90e-04

4.70e-06

1.70e-05

Rainwater

7.00e-05

8.90e-05

4.00e-07

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, 1.00e-05 is equal
to 1.00 x 1077.

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