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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
_

Thus,

tuna

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.

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1.7
0.04 "

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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,

.

oe

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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