Table A-22. Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Utirik Island at Utirik Atoll.
Food

137Cs

90Sr

239+240Pu

24iAm

Coconut crabs
Land crabs

2.50e+00
2.50e+00

2.73e-O01
2.73e-01

1.51e-03
1.51e-03

4.80e-04
4.80e-04

Chicken muscle

5 .53e-01

7.77e-03

2.60e-05

5.10e-05

Chicken liver
Chicken gizzard
Pork muscle
Pork kidney
Pork liver
Pork heart
Bird muscle
Bird eggs
Chicken eggs

3.15e-01
2.40e-01
2.80e+00
5.10e+00
1.89e+00
7.72e-01
1.40e-02
8.40e-03
§.53e-01

1.50e-01
2.08e-02
6 .90e-04
1.61e-03
1.25e-03
2.94e-03
8.00e-04
3.60e-04
7.77e-03

5.20e-05
3.00e-04
2.00e-06
1.80e-04
1.50e-04
1,90e-05
2.30e-04
2.30e-04
2.60e-05

3.00e-04
2.70e-04
7.30e-06
3.40e-04
8.30e-05
1.60e-04
1.00e-05
1.00e-05
5.10e-05

Pandanus fruit
Breadfruit
Coconut fluid
Coconut milk

1.72e+00
6 .53e~-01
2.19e-01
1.95e+00

1.93e-01
1.78e-02
6.46e-03
2.95e-03

2.05e-05
1.47e-05
5.20e-05
1.20e-04

3.00e-05
1.96e-05
9.69e-05
1.58e-04

Drinking coconut meat
Copra meat

1.34e+00
1.95e+00

2.95e-03
2.95e-03

1.20e~04
1.20e~-04

1.58e-04
1.58e-04

Marshallese cake

1.95e+00

2.95e-03

1.20e~04

1.58e-04

Papaya
Banana
Rainwater
Wel lwater
Malolo
Coffee/tea

3.56e+00
5 .57e-01
7.00e-05
1.80e-04
7.00e-05
7.00e-05

1.31e-02
7.86e-03
8.90e-05
1.00e-03
8.90e-05
8.90e-05

0.
1.40e-05
4.00e~-07
7.00e-07
4.00e-07
4.00e-07

2.40e-05
0.
3.00e-07
2.50e-07
3.00e-07
3.00e-07

NOTE: Value, following e notation indicates power of ten.
to 1.00 x 1077.

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For example, |.00e-05 is equal

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