Appendix Pable 2.

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Radioactivity in fish from Rongelap Island,
Rongelap Atoll, collected July 23, 1957
(Values expressed in uc/k@

Common name

Genus and species

Surgeonfish

Acanthurus

Bone

Liver

0.341

0.199

0.590

Squirrelfish

Holocentrus

028

.058

353s:

6.090

Butterfly fish

Chaetodon

028

O91

.178

Grouper

Epinepnalus
merra

019

112

. 468

nigricans

diadema

eitrinellus

Muscle

.083

285

Grouper

Cephalopholis

-021

.121

1.400

Grouper

C. urodelus

.014

. 068

.482

Damselfish

Pomacentrus

Goatfish

Mulloidichthys

Goatfish

leopardus

melas

.087

.134

. 309

-027

.104

.018

069
131
-222

178
224

Upenaus

185

.106

. 168

Lizard fish

Synodus variegatus

038

.205

458

Threadfish

Polydactylus

168

Jack
Wrasse

samoensis

berber

.021
-O12

.2e2

.189

.013
-955

273

.173
.213

1.040

Carangoides

029

.098

2295

Halichoeres

.014

.O79

08%

sexfilis

ferdau

trimaculatus

Homogenized muscle tissue

from 13 species (above)
19 specimens (1 gram tissue from each). Three

plates made from aggregate.

.029

083
.122

~375
473

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