Table A-25. Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Wotho Island at Wotho Atoll.
Food

137Cs

90Sr

239+240Pu

241Am

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

2.50e+00
2.50e+00
1.06e-01
1.03e-01
6.74e-02
6.60e-01
6.14e-01

2.73e-01
2.73e-01
1.89e-04
9.53e-04
5.16e-03
7.60e-05
2.52e-03

1.51e-03
1.51e-03
2.70e-05
1.30e-04
4.10e-04
6 .70e-06
1.70e-05

4.80e-04
4.80e-04
1.30e-03
2.10e-04
3.00e-04
2.40e-06
9.80e-05

Pork liver
Pork heart

3.80e-01
7.72e-01

9.00e-04
2.94e-03

7.90e-05
1.90e-05

2.10e-05
1.60e—-04

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

1.40e-02
8.40e-03
1.06e-01
2.08e-01
8.70e-02
3.80e-02
3.37e-01
2.46e-01
3.37e-01

2.00e-04
9.00e-05
1.89e—-04
3.13e-02
2.89e-03
3.67e-04
7.50e-04
7.50e-04
7.50e-04

5 .50e-05
5.50e-05
2.70e-05
1.48e-05
5.35e-06
1.00e-05
1.90e-05
1.90e-05
1.90e-05

1.20e-05
1.20e-05
1.30e-03
1.70e-05
5.70e-06
1.50e-05
2.40e-05
2.40e-05
2.40e-05

Marshallese cake

3.37e-01

7.50e-04

1.90e-05

2.40e-05

Papaya

5.21e-01

0.

0.

0.

Rainwater
Wellwater

7.00e-05
1.80e-04

8.90e-05
1.00e-03

4.00e~-07
7.00e-07

3.00e-07
2.50e-07

Malolo
Coffee/tea

7.00e-05
7.00e-05

8.90e-05
8.90e-05

4.00e-07
4.00e-07

3.00e~-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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