Table A-14. Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Agulue Island at Ailuk Atoll.
Food

137Cs

90Sr

239+240Pu

24lAm

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

Chickew muscle

2.99e-01

2.07e-03

9.80e-06

3.90e-05

Chicken

2.23e-01

3.82e-02

8.80e-04

2.60e-04

Chicken gizzard

1.88e-01

7.49e-02

1.70e-04

1.10e-04

Pork muscle

7.90e-01

2.70e+00

1.90e-04

6.12e-03

4.70e-06

1.70e-05

Pork

9.58e-01

1.24e-03

1.50e-05

1.60e-05

Pork heart
Bird muscle
Bird eggs
Chicken eggs

7.72e-01
1.10e-02
6.60e-03
2.99e-01

2.94e-03
5 .50e-04
2.48e-04
2.07e-03

1.90e-05
5.50e-05
5.50e-05
9.80e-06

1.60e-04
5 .00e-06
5.00e-06
3.90e-05

Pandanus fruit
Coconut fluid

1.09e+00
9.90e-02

z2.0le-02
6.69e-05

1.79e-05
3.07e-06

1.58e-05
1.25e-05

Coconut milk
Drinking coconut meat
Copra meat
Marshallese cake

1.02e+00
7.43e-01
1.02e+00
1.02e+00

6.14e-04
6.14e-04
6.14e-04
6.14e-04

7.36e-06
7.36e-06
7.36e-06
7.36e-06

2.03e-05
2.03e-05
2.03e-05
2.03e-05

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

liver

Pork kidney
liver

5.10e-05

9.90e-05

NOTE; Value following e notation indicates power of ten. For example, !.00e-05 is equal

to 1.00 x 107.

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