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Table

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Radionuclide content of various biological and physical systems at Bikini
Atoll, August 1964. Values for water are expressed as pci/liter and value

for all others as pCi/gram dry weight.

Tye

Seawater

__Mn>4

Lagoon

0

Bravo Crater

0

__co 57*®
0

0.97

cor’60

__gn®? 65 sr 90

0.73

0

5.5

0

Ry06

0.42

0

67.

om

Sh.125
0

0

9.5

3.5

1.1

__¢s 137

Se"144

12.

~

97.

pi207
-

-

1.0

0.075

-

0.84

99.

0

~

Sediments
Lagoon

Bravo Crater

1.1

26,

Plankton

0

Algae

2.5

Invertebrates

i8

2.4

6.7

92.*

260.

5.0

106.

~~

142

~

-

-

-_

2.6

781

2.9

i.l

1s.

Grouncwater*®

9

-

27

12.

Soils

1.7

-

49,

-

Rats

0

-

2.0

1.9

0.056

4.&

Sea

Birds, Shore
*

0.055 0

41.

0

-

4.8

0

0

0

-

6.1

0.34

0.56

2.6

15

4.2

Fish

Birds,

200.

1.2

-

0.036

~

68

1550

-

46,
1.4

0

1.8

21.

0

42

47.

180.
Q
0.46

6.0

1,2

0

08
0

350

13

41

170

0

0

260

0

0

0

-

0

1.6

0.43

370

-

4.9

3b.

¢e

0

21.

6.1

Cerium-144 and Europium-155 also contribute to the radioactivity in this column.

** Practically all due to high counts in Namu Island groundwater (near Bravo Crater).

1.4

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