Table 16.
Radionuclide concentration in fish at Bikini Atoll.
Concentration,
SLbb00S
pCi/g dry weight
collected
Island
Apr 1975
Eneu
Goatfish
comple
6906
- 137o¢
5
1.6
0.18
0.23
EW
8
1.0
0.18
<0.07
EW
6
0.27
0.25
0.07
EW
6
0.19
0.18
<0.07
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
Grouper
Muscle
1
0.16
0.43
"
"
Parrot fish
Muscle
1
_
Convict surgeon
EW
10
EW
12
EW
"
Enidrik
Dec 1974
Namu
"
"
"
Enidrik
Convict surgeon
"
Mullet
"
May 1972
Namu
Mullet
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
Bikini
Jt
Eneman
"
0.43
<0.03
—
"
1.7
4.5
<0.26
—
"
0.68
0,48
0.17
0.020
"
9
2.0
0,32
0.12
2
1.4
0.32
<0,06
—
“0.06
_
0.14
0.05
0.008
0.004
"
"
4,
0.25
—
—
EW
12
4.1
0,59
0.16
_
"
EW
2
EW
10
"
EW
14
"
EW
16
EW
u
Nam
Goatfish
"
"
Snapper
"
EW
Muscle
1.0
0.020
0.045
"
14
18
0.24
0.18
<0.002
"
0.12
0.72
"
3
3
0.82
<0.01
3.50
1.90
Convict surgeon
EW
EW
unpublished
—
EW
Mullet
"
0.003
<0.03
1
"
"
"
"
Vic Nelson,
"
Entire
Bikini
0.003
0.005
Goatfish
Apr 1974
Source
"
4
EW
239,2405,,
—
EW
"
90¢,
EW
"
Namu
"
Tissue
"
Dec 1974
-Ge-
Species
fn
"
Lynch et at.
1.2
_
—
"
0.7
—
—
"
0.51
0.15
—
"
0
0.20
0.07
—
"
1
0.67
0.08
<0.03
—
"
6
3.2
_
"
12-26
0.51
0.99
1.0
—
—
"