Table §.
Comparison of levels of p-radioactivity in invertebrates at Rongelap
Atoll in March with those in August 1958 on both wet and ash weight
basis expressed in pc/kg.
Organism
Tissue
Sponge
"
Sea cucumber
Holothuria atra
tt
"
n
"
1
it
integument
"
"
v
'
"
gonad
i
1
"
integument
"
"
"
tl
"
i
gonad
gut
"
"
"
integument
Actinopyga
mauritiana
is |
"
"
"
"
7
"
O64
.058
.016
12
O48
2.0
.14
JAD
«4.0
wll
.037
94
.15
79
.084 2.0
"1
"
"
"
tt
Tridacna noea
it
t!
"
Rongelap
integument
Tridacna noea
HW
1.8
.058
i
"
atichopus
nN
47
.039
Kabelle
gonad
"
integument
Kabelle
mantle
Rongelap
muscle
"
gill
"
vise. mass
"
kidney
"
Kabelle &
it
"
tt
"
mantle
n
't
'T
gill
"
"
"
"
visc. mass
"
ut
a
!
"
it
rf
Hy
Tt
muscle
Anielap
tt
T
kidney
if
W
muse le
mantle
"
it
tt
gill
'
"
"
visc. mass
"
Hippopus
"
i"
Tridacna gigas
"
iw
kidney
mantle
"
Kabelle
"
t
muscle
"
n
"
gill
tt
It
V
vise .
"t
!
tt
v
kidney
"
mass
Ash
91
"
gut
Wet
Kabelle
Rongelap
Eniaetok
Kabelle
Eniaetok
gut
Ash
1.4
2.0
4.4
"
Mi
Clam
"
gut
Wet
August
.083
Rongelap
Roggutsu
gonad
March
Rongelap
Eniaetok
"
coral
"
0
tt
Locality
"W
tt
014
13
.033
O14
.O5
005
.096
56
.10 8.2
.14
42
.058 1.8
10 6.9
.22
.50
.36
.030
1.1
. 30
39
14
.003
.021
.76
66
1.6
.20
.33
)6«66..9
2.7
.28
.O75
.62
O46 2.0
.019 .96
.O75 3.2
20.
33
93
.026 1.1
.008 6.40
.036 1.6
.084 2.9
1.0 13.
.32 11.
1.1
9.2
014
55
.012
48
.035 1.3
58 21,
56
&y
.020
.72
.0098 ,33
.092
.82
5.3
.065 1.7
.18
.13
2.1
.0086 .30
.030 1.1
.013
48
.066 2.4.
1.6
13.
.020
.018
O44
.066 .99
1.6 18.
094 1.15
.065 .070
.016 .017
.92 13.
.029 1.08
.013 .56
052 2.1
.56 18. |
58 5.8
021
.76
.008 .37
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12 4.0
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