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The mean values for 905,
.
13766, 6005, 65 en and
54 Mn
in
diet items at Bikini Atoll in 1967 were given in the Radiological
Report on Bikini Atoll by Gustafson in 1968, and are listed in
Table 1 with the average values determined from the 1968 samples.
Three hundred fourteen-day 54iin and 245-day OF on have been
omitted from Table 1 because no detectable amounts of these
radionuclides were found in the 1969 samples,
and >> Re has been
added, by using values for 1967 samples from an addendum to the
1968 report.
The 1967 values for fish include reef fish and troll-caught
‘fish, whereas the 1969 data in Table 1 are for reef fish only.
The average values for 6006 in the muscle of troll-caught fish
were,
Yellowfin tuna
0.15 pCi/g wet
:
Dogtooth
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tuna
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1.7
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the 1969 values for fish in Table 1 are greater than if
the values for troll-caught fish were included in the averages.
In Table 1 the data for giant clams are for 1969 samples
taken from the vicinity of Bikini I.
Clams were also collected
around Nam I. but they were of a small species which is rarely
eaten;
also,
the level of 6006 in the Nam I.
than in the Bikini I.
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lder,
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clams,
clams was lower
presumably because the
clams which had accumulated
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latter were
Co for several years.
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