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Table 3.

Decline in radioactivity of samples

collected at Eniwetok immediately
following and 700 days after the Nectar

Shot, May 14, 1954.
Maximum value 1-3

700 days

days post-—-Nectar

post-Nectar

d/m/g wet

d/m/g wet
Plankton

7 Bird feathers and skin
10 4Algae

10

7

Snail liver
Clam visceral mass

"

kidney

6

10 -+Beach sand

1O

Pish gut
Bird gut
Sea cucumber gut
Bird bone, kidney
Coral
Bird liver,

6

lung

Fish skin, bone

5
10°4Sea cucumber muscle

DO

5

Snail muscle
Clam muscle

4

Sea water

10 4Fish muscle

Snail liver

Clam kidney

Beach sand

1. O

4

Snail muscle
Fish liver
Plankton
Fish gut
Sea cucumber gut

1071

Clam visceral mass
bo?
Bird kidney, liver,lung
Sea cucumber muscle
Fish bone

2

10 -

10 +

1+

Algae
Clam muscle
Bird bone,
Coral

Fish
Fish
Bird
Bird

skin
muscle
muscle
gut

Sea water

skin

;

1.0

HO

1

2

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