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.

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