Table 2°
er
Mean Concentration of 905, in Coconut Crabs Collected
at Rongelap Atoll from 1957 - 1974
Sample
Type
oconut Crab, Muscle
oconut Crab, Exoskeleton
.
Collection
Area
Collection
Rongelap I
Arbar, Busch I
Date
1957-58
1974
Number of
Samples
1955
1957-58
1974
Arbar I
1959
2
Kabelle I
Kabelle I
1959
1974
3
3
1974
1959
1974
in pCi/g, dry
12
4
Kabelle I
Kabelle I
Kabelle I
Arbar I
Mellu I
Mellu I
Mean Concentration
1
14
3
2
2
1
90sr
14
25
120
47
4.8
480
64
1100
240
1600
130
These data were taken from the following sources:
Collection Date
1955
1958-1971
1974
Source
Donaldson,
1955
LRE, unpublished data
This report
27 pCi/g, wet, multiplied by a wet/drv ratio of 4.5.
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This table is a partial reprint of Table 7, NVO-269-32, "Radiological Survey
of Plants, Animals and Soil at Christmas Island
and Seven Atolls in the
Marshall Islands-Progress Report for 1974-1975", V. A. Nelson, 1977.