TABLE 24
Radiostrontium in Land Hermit Crabs (Cenobita sp.)
Collected at Rongelap Atoll July 23-24, 1956
(AFL)
Radioactivity as of Counting Date, September 10, 1956
Specimen
Number
I-9
"
I-50
.
Total
Tissue
‘ Liver
“ Muscle
Skeleton
Liver
Muscle
Skeleton
Island
A activity
d/m/g wet
Kabelle
243
"
5410
"
43h
Kabelle
633
"
Kabelle
:
"
I-51
"
Muscle
Skeleton
T-52
Skeleton Rongelap
Sr
90
<d/fm/g wet
hota
62t22
2400t9
y7ti4
Calcium
g/gwet
0.00304
units"
89
~:Sr
90
1.6¢0.3
5310-19
0.24to.02
8890¢3110
0.00718
33110t946
0.206
Sr
6250t231
0.00320
0.0
33. 61.6
0.202
4910%1170
2960t7
2.4t0.7
90t6
2130130
0.00919
0.189
5120382
Auhot158
0.71%0.05
0 .32to .04
1310°5
0.177
336014
0.u8to.14
4100
2ht6
1310%3
0.00223
dpb
5600
3900
273
"Sunshine
0.58t0 .16