Table A-21. Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Pigowak Island at Utirik Atoll.
Food

137Cs

-

_90Sr

2.73e-01
2.73e-01
2.70e-03
3.82e-02
7.49e-02
6 .90e-04
6.12e-03
1.24e-03

239+240Pu
1.5le-03
1.51e-03
2.60e-05
5 .20e-05
3.00e-04
2.00e-06
1.80e-04
1.50e-04

241Am

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
2.238e-01
1.88e-01
2.80e+00
2.70e+00
9.58e-01

4.80e-04
4.80e-04
5.10e-05
3.00e-04
2.70e-04
7.30e-06
3.40e-04
8.30e-05

Pork heart

7.72e-01

2.94e-03

1.90e-05

1.60e-04

Bird muscle
Bird eggs
Chicken eggs
Pandanus fruit
Coconut fluid
Coconut milk
Drinking coconut meat
Copra meat
Marshallese cake

1.40e-02
8 .40e-03
2.99e-01
1.63e+00
1.47e-01
1.05e+00
7.38e-01
1.05e+00
1.05e+00

8 .00e-04
3.60e-04
2.70e-03
2.96e-01
4.15e-03
9.95e-02
9.95e-02
9.95e-02
9.95e-02

2.30e-04
2.30e-04
2.60e-05
2.45e-05
3.40e-05
2.80e-05
2.80e-05
2.80e-05
2.80e-05

1.00e-05
1.00e-05
5.10e-05
4.74e-05
1.12e-04
1.82e-04
1.82e-04
1,.82e-04
1.82e~-04

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 107’.

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