CONTENTS
Page
Introduction

1

Selection of Samples and Sampling Sites

3

Analytical Methods

6

Results and Discussion

8

Acknowledgements

39

References

40

TABLES

l.

Average Values of Radionuclides in Food Items
Other than Land Plants

2.

Radionuclides in Eviscerated Whole Fish,

Average

Values

3.
4.

Gamma-Emitting Radionuclides in Viscera of Reef
Fish, Average Vslues

Gamma-Emitting Radionuclides in Troll-Caught Fish,

21
22
23

Average Values

24

5.

Gamma-Emitting Radionuclides in Coconut Crabs,
Average Values

25

6.

Gamma-Emitting Radionuclides in Spiny Lobsters,
Average Values

26

7.

Gamma-Emitting Radionuclides in Giant Clams,
Average Values

8.

27

.Gamma-Emitting Radionuclides in Birds, Average
Values

28

9.

Radionuclides in the Surface One-Inch of Soil

29

10.

Radionuclides in Soil Collected from the Most
Radioactive Part of Eneman Islet

30

11.

Radionuclides
Shore

12.

in

of Eneman

Soil

Collected

on the

Seaward

31

Islet

Strontium-90 in Samples Collected at Bikini Atoll,
March, June, August
90sr in Reef Fish)

3002440

1969

(see also Table

2 for

Department of Energy
Historian’s Office
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