Table VIII. Radioactivity of Birds Collected at Rongelap Atoll, 1954-55
Values expressed in thousands of d/m/g of wet tissue
t
it
"
"
i"
Ui
it
u
i
“i
12/8/54 Kabelle
w
1t
it
1/26/55 Rong
noddy tern
fairy tern
crested tern
curlew
noddy tern
#
1/28/55 Labared J
f!
Wt
{t
rt
a
OO
1/30/55 GeJjen
1/
—
6 .78
) 84
1 57
fairy tern
fairy tern
tt
1
1 .58
Ll .29
1 .20
.621
ih
.789
.88
1.29
573
3.15
1.57
2.39
1.81
403
fairy tern
.150
B51
2.53
3.72
.118
.102
.t11
330
.266
O74
1.09
3.16
357
.LO7
.990
248
552
358
O41
.O4G
054
.108
15.
37.
‘0
‘0
13.
58
9.00
4,
20.0
ill.
14.0
8,
3.70
3.
20.0 150.
24.0
lil.
14.7
1.
ut
‘Be
5
05
.26
1.56
1.04
2345
740
061
125
oe
.078
31.
291.
3.
314
.508
140
~591
912
334
O45
noddy tern
1.33
823
060
.361
623
turnstone
plover
noddy tern
fairy tern
.693
1.22
1.02
39.0
298 .
15.0
23.
65.
12,
.698
349
2,
4,
1,
2
2
307
157
430
1 74
.258
394
317
52
54
51
2585
19
558
437
.213
934
Be
7/16/54 Kabelle
curlew
61.4
110.
354.
0
TIleum
PH
#
6.71
9.40
17.0
14,
Kidney
WUT COtW OO
:
fairy tern
Liver
. 23,
121.
68 .7
Lung
mM Mh
"
"W
9.16
17.0
Thyroid
re
"
f
482.
51. 0
555.
380.
4,970.
Bone
eh Mh
tT
noddy tern
Muscle
eel
Kabelle
pt
3/26/54 Labaredj
Skin
Namel/
FRE
Island
Mm
Date
.800
.O7
.085
217
-395
.154
.069
.223
.167
243
.196
fairy tern, Gygis alba; curlew, Numenius s .; erested tern,
Sterna bergil; furnstone, Arenaria interpres morinella; plover, Plurialis dominica.
Noddy tern, Anous stolidus;