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

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