Table 23.
Measured and estimated radionuclide concentrations in food
products on Bikini and Eneu Islands at Bikini Atoll.
Concentration, pCi/g wet weight
1 January 1975
90 Sr
Food product
l3log
600,
239,240,
90.5
<1.30(-2)"
<3.59(-2)
<4.81(-3)
108
<O.111
<1.06(-2)
Bikini terrestrial foods
Pandanus fruit
7.60
Breadfruit
46.7
17.3
<6.12(-3)
Coconut meat (dry wt)
1,82
Coconut milk
0.851
50.6
<0.103
<9.01¢-3)
Domestic meat
0.201
22.2
<1.05(-2)
<1.42(-2)
Coconut crabs
220
Garden vegetables
—
12.9
47.6
1.09
6.8(-3)
56.7
7.40(-3)
<5.56(-4)
Eneu terrestrial foods
5.99
<2.82(~3)
<5.03(-4)
7.16
<8.74(-3)
<1.86(-2)
3.
Breadfruit
0,924
Coconut meat (dry wt)
9.76(-2)
09
Coconut milk
4.56(-2)
3.35
<B.07(-3)
<7.41(-3)
Domestic meat
<1.08(-2)
1.47
<8.24(-4)
<1.17(-3)
220
Garden vegetables
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<3. 96 (-4)
0.407
Coconut crabs
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<1.02(-3)% =
Pandanus fruit
47.6
0.689
3.75
1.09
6.8(-3)
5.82(-4)
“Numbers in parentheses indicates powers of 10, i.e.,
indicates x 1072.
<4.57(-5)
(-2)
This conservative approach was
predicted concentrations in the food
adopted
products
because we
lack any
definitive
and,
asa
result,
would
information that would indicate that
reduce the predicted doses via the
environmental processes might result
terrestrial pathway.
in more rapid, effective removal of
The dietary intake values in Table 3
and the concentrations
radionuclides from the environment.
Any environmental process that might
in Table 23 were
cused to generate the pCi/da intake of
The results
cause the removal of radionuclides
each of the radionuclides.
from the environment more rapidly than
in Table 24 are for a diet entirely
the physical decay of the radionu-
from Eneu Island, while those in
clides would, of course, reduce the
Table 25 are for a diet solely from
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