Table 4
Levels of beta~-radioactivity in invertebrates at Rongelap Atoll August 1958 shown as both pe/kg
wet (left entry) and pe/kg ash (right entry).
Organism
Locality
Sponge, tan
Sponge, black
Sponge, yellow
Coral,
Heliopora
blue
Coral, soft
Coral,
Acropora
"
"Acropora
"Acropora
worm
Sea cucumber
Holothuria atra
"
"
"
"
"
"
i"
4
»Sea
"
a
"
"
"
"
q
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
”
"
uo.
M
Actinopyga
cucumber mauritiana
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3
Tissue
entire
272
327
328
2291
2388
2389
066
1.69
1.48
Rongelap, ocean
256
2282
219
231
259
2290
.o42
O47
w.
"
q
end
"
Lagoon
Eniaetok,
"
Kabelle, channel
"
257
278-284
398
399
2283
O49
2293
8026
065
.012
8027
330
2387
38.65
- Rongelap, ocean
220
2243
.080
241
2272
13
286
2297
O41
2359
2362
.18
.19
2368
.17
Roggutsu, lagoon
Eniaetok, lagoon
"
ocean
"
"
ocean
"
"
lagoon
Kabelle, lagoon
"
"
258
285
2284
2294
312
2357
316
23605
314
315
319
.10
.O70
.013
.019
Kabelle, lagoon
"ON. reef
99
27.
9.5
.020
9.1
Gonad
-
.id
-
.067
3.5
lz
-
12
Gut
.145
.20
O93
.20
1.8
225
4.8
4g
236
.29
-
#+1.8
~=10
23
#49
.14
1.33
Integument
7037
21.0
.1;7
2050
1.9
62
.038
i.
J1l4
.098
2.5
2.2
233
8.37.)
.39
1.3
1.0
1.7
086
021
£067
.080
.28
.061
2.4
255
1.9
1.7
1.7
Rongelap, ocean
221
226
.065
1.7
14
28
003
fusco mibra
Roggutsu, Lagoon
240
2270
-
-
27
43
.058
ananas
Busch, Lagoon
260
200
2286
228€
. 20
19
.10
J15
(Gut only, not content
O11
.038
. 60
5)
313
2242
O21
.62
Holothuria
a
"
Thelenotus
5
"
Actinopyga
Hy
white
i
Sticnopus
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:
Plate
No,
Eniaetok, ocean
Kabelle, lagoon
"
"
"
Nemertean
"
Specimen No.
Eniaetok, Lagoon
Kabelle,
"
eff
eeye
-
~
-
-~
-
-
-
~
005
.O75
1.4
.le