Table A-33. Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Pokon Island at Ujelang Atoll.
Food

137Cs

90Sr

239+240Pu

24iAm

Coconut crabs
Land crabs
Chicken muscle

2.50e+00
2.50e+00
2.99e-01

2.73e-01
2.73e-01
2.07e-03

1.51e-03
1.51e-03
2.30e-05

4.80e-04
4.80e-04
3.70e-04

Chicken

2.23e-01

3.82e-02

3.40e-04

4.80e-04

Chicken gizzard
Pork muscle

liver

1.88e-01
4.40e-01

7.49e-02
5 .50e-04

1.60e-04
1.80e-05

4.70e-04
1.10e~-05

Pork kidney

2.70e+00

6.12e-03

1.70e-05

9.80e-05

Pork liver
Pork heart
Bird muscle
Bird eggs
Chicken eggs

9.58e-01
7.72e-01
1.10e-02
6 .60e-03
2.99e-01

1.24e-03
2.94e-03
2.00e-04
9.00e-05
2.07e-03

1.50e-04
1.00e-06
2.00e-05
2.00e-05
2.30e-05

1.80e-05
1.70e~04
8 .00e-06
8.00e-06
3.70e-04

Pandanus

1.27e-01

9.50e-03

3.02e-06

9.33e-06

Coconut fluid
Coconut milk

fruit

1.99e-02
2.29e-01

0.
0.

0.
0.

0.
0.

Drinking coconut meat
Copra meat
Marshallese cake
Rainwater
Wellwater

1.67e-01
2.29e-01
2.29e-01
7.00e-05
1.80e-04

0.
Q.
QO.
8.90e-05
1.00e-03

0.
0.
QO.
4.00e-07
7.00e-07

0.
QO.
0.
3.00e-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, |.00e-05 is equal!

to 1.00 x 1079.

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