Table 1
Average.Values of Radionuclides in Food Items Other Than
Land Plants at Bikini Atoll, 1967(1) and 1969
t
35 ne
Diet Item
'67
Fish,
",
100
muscle
(2)
eviscerated whole
Fish, liver
(2)
"
, viscera
604,
'69
"67
769
3.7
‘18
9200*
pci/g wet
382*
120
90.
"67
"69
-19
2.6
44.7
~13
nd
-
2.5
Giant clams ‘>?
5.9
Coconut crabs, muscle
"
‘t
"
(Bikini)
L.2
-65
12
181
Coconut crabs, "liver" (Bikini)
Al
7.8
62
170
16
1.5
5.1
16
"
"
"
"
Birds,
"
"
muscle,
",
"
,
"
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(Enyu)
-8
(Enyu)
all species
curlew
turnstone
, terns
10
100
110
24
LO5
L55
“
19
14
3.5
94
7.7
L.l
02
nd
72
05
213
nd -
-
-
16
26.5
~
380
56
-08
Radiological Report on Bikini Atoll.
Philip F. Gustafson, Division of Biology and
Medicine, USAEC, Washington, D.C., April 1968.
Reef fish only.
The heading, "Clams or Lobster" was used in the 1968 table, but it has been
established that the values given are for spiny lobsters from Bikini I. only.
The 1969 value includes spiny lobsters from Nam I.
The average values for ©0Co
for lobsters from Bikini I. is .07 pCi/g wet.
Clams from near Bikini I. only. Only small clams, not usually eaten, were found
The maximum value for 69Cco was 29 pci/g wet.
off Nam.
*Jacks only
nad -— not detectable
Te
(1)
"
"
24
-
nd
Spiny lobster ‘2"4)
"
04
"69
~32
~
12
'67
-08
13.3
il
1374.