Table A-15. Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Aliet Island at Ailuk Atoll.
Food

137Cs

Coconut crabs

,

90Sr

239+240Pu

24iAm

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
Chicken liver
Chicken gizzard

2.99e-01
2.23e-01
1.88e-01

2.07e-03
3.82e-02
7.49e-02

9.80e-06
8 .80e-04
1.70e-04

3.90e-05
2.60e-04
1.10e-04

Pork muscle

7.90e-01

1.90e-04

4.70e-06

1.70e-05

Pork kidney
Pork liver

2.70e+00
9.58e-01

6.12e-03
1.24e-03

5.10e-05
1.50e-05

9.90e-05
1.60e-05

Pork heart

7.72e-01

2.94e-03

1.90e-05

1.60e-04

Bird muscle
Bird eggs
Chicken eggs

1.10e-02
6 .60e-03
2.99e-01

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

5 .50e-05
5 .50e-05
9.80e-06

5 .00e-06
5 .00e-06
3.90e-05

Pandanus

6.59e-01

1.22e-02

8.64e-06

B.02e-06

Coconut fluid
Coconut milk
Drinking coconut meat
Copra meat

fruit

1.18e-01
5.26e-01
3.84e-01
5.26e-01

2.56e-04
2.35e-03
2.35e-03
2.35e-03

-5 .92e-06
—1.42e-05
-1.42e-05
-1.42e-05

-4.88e-06
-7.94e-06
~7 .94e—-06
~7.94e-06

Marshallese cake
Rainwater

5.26e-01
7.00e-05

2.35e-03
8.90e-05

-1.42e-05
4.00e-07

-7.94e-06
3.00e-07

Coffee/tea

7.00e-05

8.90e-05

4.00e-07

3.00e-07

Wellwater
Malolo

1.80e-04
7.00e-05

1.00e-03
8.90e-05

7 .00e~-07
4.00e-07

2.50e-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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