IRS and 5600 from the NM 9500 from Enewetak, ted lec col samples from Bikini, n s have bee [ant t 2 os ape Pi berg comes retrcriporps cet focal fownf prrewbar Coon tratien cpr ye vee wear hee Dyetar vem Moy since 1975. are available. ing increments: 0 are collected for the follow All soil profile samples 40 cm, and 40 to 15 cm, 15 to 25 cm, 29 to to 5 em, 5 to 10 cm, 10 to soil is collected for imately 500 to 1000 g of 60 cm. A total of approx ed by high-resolution Samples are then analyz each profile increment. concentrations ermine the ‘Cs and 241 Am gamma spectroscopy to det centrations of con the cedures to determine and by radiochemical pro u. “P e cases, 41 Am and woe 7! by: and in som cm, 0 to 10 cm, ns for the profiles 0 to 5 tra Radionuclide concen tio are calculated using to 40 cm, and 0 to 60 cm 0 to 15 cm, 0 to 25 cm, 0 and average for each 5-cm increment. The isl equal weights for each m, etc.) is calculated — dept on the island. s for each profile taken by averaging the result from Bikini Island es in Table 3 for 94 profil results are summarized profiles have been soil of Island. Hundreds u Ene for es fil pro 84 and visited during the Atoll and from the atolls analyzed from Enewetak NMIRS. 52 Np TY, “Aan Hiking island Chicken muscle Chicken liver Chicken gizzard Pork muscle Pork kidney Pork liver Pork heart Bird muscle Bird viscera ' eggs Bird Chicken eggs” Pandanus fruit Pandanus nuts Breadfrunt Coconut fluid Coconut milk copra Puba/Jekaro Drinking coconut meat Copra meat Sprouting coconut Marshallese cake Papas W ' ater Mal meer fate ¥ e/tea centrations son Radionuclide Con pene Fe Padarruds ine and water sample of plant, soil, animal, mar ions ohsérved im le 2 are the concent rat The data presented in Tah trations in the cen con ll. The radionuclide Ato ini Bik at ts duc pro food RS are much less atolls visited for the NMI came food products for The concentration le 2 for Bikini Atoll (9). than those shown in Tab wn in Figs. 5 normally distributed as sho of '“Cs in coconut is log tra cen tion data in l of all radionuclide con through 7. This is typica distribution. The the ficient data to evaluate islands where we have suf centile of the per h 70t a falls at about the dat the of ue val n mea about the 96th the mean value falls at distribution; three times percentile. t we can directly al foods available so tha It is preferable to have loc ble portion of the concentration in the edi measure the radionuclide te a living pattern y it is necessary to evalua plant. However, frequentl food crops. It is any idence island is void of where the proposed res determine the to gy olo 4 predictive method use to ary ess nec n the if people were to n that might be expected radionuclide concentratio accomplish this by nt subsistence foods. We resettle the island and pla uclide concentran ratio between the radion developing a concentratio s where local foods in the soil on those island tion in the plant to those Weredicerrres fade 232 216 94 0.055 0.4 OB 0.033 6.9 199 Bird eves”, fird eggs” eggs Chicken j ¢ Cen nad copra vay Drinking coconut me at c ce meat oprouting coconut Marshallese cake i 1.79 0.67 — (1.04 0.04 O18 0.0 0.057 95 O54 199 - 1.73 104 123 : _ 3.8 (-4)" . 48 (3.8 ma 5 I's a 1.9 (-4 an (_ mee . lon 21.6 4.44 a1 (-4) 57 (—5) 8h 0.0195 5.02 (-5) 7A (6 (5) (—A) (-5) (—4) (-9) (—-f) D4 24 24 24 a4 . 4 ( i (A) ( 5 (oy (5) (I 0.22 0.22 0.22 0.22 0.22 0.22 96 9.6 9.6 9.6 9.6 9.6 1.9 (-3) 6.1 (-4) 0.43 0.12 6.3 (—6) 4.5 (—5) 3.2 (-6) 2.2 (-5) 1.9 (-38) 6.1 (-4)} 6.3 (-4) 4.2 (-6} 238 169 193 238 260 238 19 98 1.9 (-3) 6.1 (-4) LTB) 6.3 (-6) OR Ih) 3.9 (—6) ~ Eneu Island | Chicken muscle’ Chickenliver’ Chicken gizzard Pork muscle’ Pork kidney‘ Pork liver" Pork heart’ Bird muscle ms Bird viscera 0.057 0.057 0.057 6.9 6.9 6.9 1.7 1.7 1.7 52 36 25 af ( 1055 (0.4 0 0.033 1.7 “ _ : _ 19 37 40 37 - 0.014 0.014 0.014 0.43 OR 0.21 0.25 0. 0.04 0.04 _ _ : (~ mare 0.014 . 5.1 (-3) 0.063 eae 06: 0.063 0.063 0.063 0.063 vee — 2.21 (-5) 9.1 (--5) Pecienemnien 9.1 (-5) 1.4 (-4) 1.4 (—4) 14 (-4) . 0.018 . 7 3.8 3 (- _ Z ( me ; _ me 1.90 (-5) 5.68 (-5) old (5.68 “= 1 ' ay 7 ay 03