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Table 3.
Decline in radioactivity of samples
collected at Eniwetok immediately
following and 700 days after the Nectar
Shot, May 14,
1954.
Maximum value 1-3
days post-Nectar
700 days
post-Nectar
d/m/g wet
d/m/g wet
Plankton
7 Bird feathers and skin
10 4Algae
1.0
7
Snail liver
Clam visceral mass
"kidney
6
‘
10 +Beach sand
Pish gut
Bird gut
LO
6
Sea cucumber gut
Bird bone, kidney
Coral
Bird liver,
Fish
skin,
lung
bone
10°4sea cucumber muscle
ho?
Snail muscle
Clam muscle
Sea water
4
10 4Fish muscle
Snail
liver
Clam kidney
Beach sand
HO
4
Snail muscle
Fish liver
Plankton
Fish gut
Sea cucumber gut
107!
Clam visceral mass
Bird kidney, liver, lung
Sea cucumber muscle
ho?
Fish bone
2
104
10 +
l +
Algae
Clam muscle
Bird bone,
Coral
Fish
Fish
Bird
Bird
skin
muscle
muscle
gut
Sea water
skin
nO
LO
=
2