Levels of beta-radioactivity in invertebrates at Rongelap Atoll March 1958 shown as both pe/kg wet
(left entry) and pe/kg ash (right entry).
Organism
Locality
sponge
Rongelap, ocean
"
"
coral
Acropora
"
Eniaetok, lagoon
Kabelle
52 2082
105 2149
sea cucumber
“Holothuria atra
Rongelap, ocean
white
if
i"
«“Actinopyga
mauritiana
i
tf
tt
tt
Gut
Integument
"
"
"
"
ko 2118-
Kabelle, lagoon
it
Gonad
tt
"Holothuria atra
tr
.47 1.8
.039
=.058
ty
Eniaetok
TE
.083 1.4
-~
2.0
.91 4.4
2101- .123.8 058.14 (022°
2052- .009 .29
O11
4o 2116O15 .052 .010
"Holothuria atra
"
tt
ocean
3
Ay
33
tf
68
"
98
O48 .11
.011
.016
.34 .002
-39
.085 fluid
2125- .037
-25 3.0
.94 .096 .18
.037 .11
.53 .066 .29
.050
.014
.036
.096
.005
.14 4.8 gut w/o sand
1.2
. 38 .035 1.0 gut w/o sand
80
2.1
il
13
2.9
2.1
2076
.12
2049-
4.0
2122- .022
mauritiana
"
96
2144
zyrifer
"
O7 2145
O94
spectabiils
"
91 2143
.032
"White Actinopyga
"Holothurla
" Ophiosdesoma
"
.72 gut w/o sand
.25 gut w/o sand
67
n
. 26 .024
23
.039 fluid
»13 .O14
214632 2114
| rr
002
.005
lif 2i2950
.56
.39 .051 .18
.o14
"
Stichopus
9
39 2115
48 2074
30 2107
"Stichopus
z
Plate Tissue
No.
Eniaetok, lagoon
Kabelle, lagoon
"
Bs
Specimen No.
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