from fish.

The doses from clams are calculated using the detection limits as

the

concentrations,

actual

Table 6.

These

30-y

doses

so

the

can

be

doses will
compared

be

less

with

than

the

those

United

listed

States

in

Federal

guideline for whole body of 5 rem in 30 y.
Listed in Table 7 is the contribution of each
integral dose
importance,

from fish.

and

the

The

1376

transuranics

is most

radionuclide

to the 30-y

significant, sr is

contribute

a

rather

small

second

fraction of

in
the

30-y dose.

In Table 8 the 30-y integral doses are listed for each fish.

From this

table the dose can be calculated for any combination of marine food products.
The

predicted

doses

from combinations

of

different

fish will

differ

little

from the average values previously given.
DISCUSSION

Radionuclide

concentrations

in

fish

muscle

Table 9 from the results in Table 2 and Ref.
all reef and pelagic

tissue

are

summarized

in

7 to show the average levels in

lagoon fish from each atoll or island.

Table 10 shows

the average amounts accumulated in muscle tissue of individual reef fish and
all pelagic fish from all atolls or islands.
Inspection of this and Table 2
90
shows
that
concentrations
of
s yr
in -muscle
tissue
are
very’
low
(undetectable
difference

in

in

many

the

of “the

average

At

all

atolls

or

:

higher

concentrations

.

pelagic

lagoon

level

species

significantly
islands.

The

fish.

the

239+240

Further,

from

from

from concentrations
similarities

muscle

Pu

than

the

.

and

respect to tissue distributions,
.

(mullet

of

differences

that

trophic

muscle

Pu

in

.

239+240

highest
lowest

food

Pu.

Whereas

levels
in

chain
of

behavior

the
Pu

the muscle

muscle

among

all

tissue

of

.

contain

tissue

tissue
species
the

of

surgeonfish)

differ

the

results
.

provide

11

with

feeding habits,

not

parallel

mullet

are

found

bottom-feeding

.

trophic

does

analyzed,

of

from the other atolls or

.

s

Pu.

second

level relationships,

137,

of

from

.

and environmental concentrations of the transuranics has been discussed.

The

little

fish

fish

in

convict

species

reef

.

is

239+240

Cs and

all

239+240

in these

there

different

137

amounts
of

and

that

the

tissue

concentrations

Rongelap

.

and

This is not the case for

islands
of

:

analyzed)

concentrations

different atolls or islands.

.

samples

28

that

of

have

the

1376.

concentrations

are

fish

such as mullet

and

to

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