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TABLE 4.2 #3
PLUTONIUM-239,-240 AND AMERICIUM-240 IN 1978 FOODS
AT RONGELAP ISLAND BASED ON BNL TYPE B DIET®/

Item

Grams

Drinking

coconut juice

Copra nut

products

Pandanus juice
Fish (reef)

e/

Plutonium

per day

514
293)
96
194

Anericium

-239.-240

|

Picdcuries

-240

pew

pCi/graa-fresh

pcei/gram-fresh

2.7 x 10-8

2.5 x 10-9

(2)

(3)

day

p27

6.5 x 10-8 (5-9)

6.8 x 10-5 (7-9)

p39

6.0 x 10-5

2.7 x 10-5

(3)

os

4.3 x 10-8 ( 98)

peso

24

x 10-5

(5)
( 98)

Livermore has revised the transuranic data of Robison et alf(1982b),

and the present doses are about 50% higher. The entries in the fable
above are based only on chemical determinations (number of samples in
parentheses).

They are responsible for about 25% of the total

dbse which

Livermore now attributes to plutonium-239,-240 (.37 pCi/day) an
americium-241 (.13 pci/day}. The rest of the dose was estimated
ratio method of extrapolation: it was assumed that the Rongelayp

by a
ratio,

equal the Bikini ratio (based on chemical determinations for both

soil

specific activity of food to that of soil (chemically determined)
and food).

would

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