is a 4 i f, + ‘3 i ra 1‘, » q o e 10. 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 s rien u a ” . " 1.7 0.04 " Department of Enet ARCHIVES 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. —sotiss3 lder, . oe clams, clams was lower presumably because the clams which had accumulated 60 | latter were Co for several years. No