Gamma-Emitting Radionuclides in Coconut Crabs
Collected at Bikini Atoil, June 1969
Average Values

_pci/g
60c9

Island

Tissue

No. of

Samples

137¢g

Avg.

Range

Avg.

Range

Bikini

Muscle
“Liver"**
Skeleton

6
6
6

2.7
14
nd*

1.1-3.5
5 .2-23
nd-.34

759
305
134

429-933
122-470
86-209

Eneu

Muscle
"Liver"
Skeleton

13
13
13

-59
2.6
.06

nd-1.3
-76-4.8
nd-.18

70
29
9.9

32-240
11-95
3 .9~30

47-1.1

89

32-123

Oroken

*

**k

Muscle

"Liver"
Skeleton

5

70

5
5

3.5
.09

A single significant value was 0.34 + 0.27

Hepatopancreas

30

2.0-6.4
nd-.16

74
24

39-118
17-28

en

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