Table 19,
Radionuclide concentrations in birds and bird eggs at Bikini Atoll.
Concentration,
Source
Island
Species
ple
Tissue
60, Co 137,.
Cs
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Oroken
Fairy tern
1
Muscle
0.26
0.079
—
—_
Noddy tern
5
Muscle
1.3
0.15
—
—
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5
Liver
2.7
<0.4
—
_
Fairy tern
5
Muscle
0.29
<0.4
—
—
5
Liver
0.42
<0O.4
—
_
sooty and
noody: tern
4
Muscle
0.30
<0.017
0.013
_
Bird eggs
—
Shelled
0.06
0.13
0.07
—
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Average radionuclide concentrations in birds and bird
eggs at Bikini Atoll.
Table 20.
TERRESTRIAL FOOD CHAIN
Concentration,
pCi/e wet weight
60
The availability of locally grown
terrestrial food products was still
minimal in June 1975.
Thousands of
coconut trees were planted in the
Birds
Bird
eggs
Co
137
Cs
90
Sr
239,240
0.76
0,22
0.04
0.022
0.015
0.033
0.018
0.0059
Fu
latter half of 1969 on Bikini and
Eneu, but only a few were bearing
fruit in 1975.
Pandanus fruit and
breadfruit were planted during the
Island and produced fruit during the
same time period on Bikini Island, and
past two years.
eet
Mets Mens
aided
the first few fruits from these trees
As a result of the sparsity of
appeared over the past year and a
available food crops, our goals in the
half.
The number of these trees is,
limited.survey were to sample the
however, not great and their distri-
vegetation of all species of. food
bution is limited.
crops available as well as indicator
No breadfruit or
Pandanus fruit were planted on Eneu.
plants such as Seaevola and Messer-
Banana and papaya trees were also
schmtdia, to sample edible fruit where
planted at two locations on Bikini
available, and to take soil profile
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