Table A-17. Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Bererjao Island at Ailuk Atoll.
Food

137Cs

90Sr

239+240Pu

241Am

Coconut crabs
Land crabs

2.50e+00
2.50e+00

2.73e-01
2.73e-01

1.51e-03
1.51e-03

4.80e-04
4.80e-04

Chicken muscle
Chicken liver
Chicken gizzard
Pork muscle

2.99e-01
2.23e-01
1.88e-01
7.90e-01

2.07e-03
3.82e-02
7.49e-02
1.90e-04

9.80e-06
8.80e-04
1.70e-04
4.70e-06

3.90e-05
2.60e-04
1.10e-04
1.70e-05

Pork kidney

2.70e+00

6.12e-03

5.10e-05

9.90e-05

Pork liver
Pork heart
Bird muscle
Bird eggs
Chicken eggs
Pandanus fruit
Coconut fluid

9.58e-01
7.72e-01
1.10e-02
6 .60e-03
2.99e-01
3.43e+00
1.87e-01

1.24e-03
2.94e-03
5 .50e-04
2.48e-04
2.07e-03
1.40e-02
2.22e-04

1.50e-05
1.90e-05
5.50e-05
5.50e-05
9.80e-06
1.31e-05
4.13e-06

1.60e-05
1.60e-04
5.00e-06
5 .00e-06
3.90e-05
7.96e—-06
7.12e-06

Coconut milk

4.06e-01

2.04e-03

9.91e-06

1.16e-05

Drinking coconut meat

Copra meat

2.97e-01

4.06e-01

2.04e-03

9.91e-06

1.16e-05

Marshallese cake

4.06e-01

2.04e-03

9.91e-06

Rainwater
Wellwater
Malolo
Coffee/tea

7.00e-05
1.80e-04
7.00e-05
7.00e-05

2.04e-03
8.90e-05
1.00e-03
8.90e-05
8.90e-05

9.91e-06

4.00e-07
7.00e-07
4.00e-07
4.00e-07

1.16e-05
1.16e-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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