Table A-18. Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Kapen Island at Ailuk Atoll.
Food

137Cs

903r

239+240Pu

24lAm

Coconut crabs
Land crabs
Chicken’muscle
Chicken liver
Chicken gizzard
Pork muscle
Pork kidney
Pork liver

2.50e+00
2.50e+00
2.99e-01
2.23e-01
1.88e-01
7.90e-01
2.70e+00
9.58e-01

2.73e-01
2.73e-01
2.07e-03
3.82e-02
7.49e-02
1.90e-04
6.12e-03
1.24e-03

1.51e-03
1.51e-03
9.80e-06
8.80e-04
1.70e-04
4,.70e-06
5.10e-05
1.50e-05

4.80e-04
4.80e-04
3.90e-05
2.60e-04
1.10e~-04
1.70e-05
9.90e-05
1.60e-05

Pork heart
Bird muscle

%7.72e-01
1.10e-02

2.94e-03
5 .50e-04

1.90e-05
5.50e-05

1.60e-04
5 .00e-06

Bird eggs
Chicken eggs
Pandanus fruit
Coconut fluid
Coconut milk
Drinking coconut meat
Copra meat
Marshallese cake
Rainwater
Wellwater
Malolo
Coffee/tea

6 .60e-03
2.99e-01
1.75e-01
1.50e-01
1.02e+00
7.44e-01
1.Q2e+00
1.02e+00
7.00e-05
1.80e-04
7.00e-05
7.00e-05

2.48e-04
2.07e-03
2.35e-03
1.15e-04
1.06e-03
1.06e-03
1.06e-03
1.06e-03
8.90e-05
1.00e-03
8.90e-05
8.90e-05

5 .50e-05
9.80e-06
8 .44e-06
4.68e-06
1.12e-05
1.t2e-05
1.12e-05
1.12e-05
4.00e-07
7.00e~-07
4.00e-07
‘4.00e-07

5 .00e-06
3.90e-05
2.16e-06
7.68e-06
7 .68e-06
7 .68e-06
7.68e-06
7.68e-06
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 1077.

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