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Table 15.

Island
Rongelap

Labaredj
Kabelle

sr?° in Biological and Lagoon Bottom Samples

from Rongelap Atoll, October 1955

Total
Activity

Sample

df/u/e*

coconut meat

110

pandanus fruit
morinda
"
arrowroot corm
coconut crab muscle
" "liver"
"
" salts of carapace
"
"euticle "
"

Labaredj

giant clam mantle and muscle

Labaredj

bonito muscle

Kabelle

grouper muscle

"

kidney

440
1,200

2.9
12.
50.
29.

1,700
150

"

liver

5,500

Kabelle

lagoon bottom, depth

of water 6', fraction

31

containing particles

top inch

7th inch

0

5,200

1,700
390

tern muscle

0

2.1
4.6
3.2

liver
bone

Labaredj

Activity

180
UT
40

"
"

goatfish muscle

sr?°,
Percent
of Total

0
0

0
<0.6

0

0

ho

0

61

0

40,000
25,000

0.73

0.71

<0.074 mm diameter.

* Wet weight basis except lagoon bottom which is on a dry
weight ba sis.

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