Table 22.
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.
.
a
Soil-mature leaf concentration factors calculated from associated
and nonassociated data.
Concentration factor,
(pCi/g dry plant)
Associated
No,
of
sam-
Nuclide
species
ples
Ose, Scaevola
Min
(pCi/g dry soil)
Nonassociated
Max
Median
No.
of
sam-
ples
Min
Max
Median
2
0.24
0.41
0.33
4
0.048
4.3
1.8
7
0.099
0.38
0.16
15
0.041
0.74
0.29
2
1.3
14
7.5
4
0.073
39
7.7
137 Cs, coconut
8
L.1
16
3.9
15
0.53
18
2.6
2395, coconut
4
0.011
0.022
0.015
12
0.0036
0.14
0.016
2740p, coconut
4
0.011
0.021
0.015
-12
0.0021
0.15
0.016
70c, coconut
137
Cs, Seaevola
“Plant and soil data sampled
from the same site.
Plant and soil data sampled from different sites in the same general area.
concentrations expected in the terres-
age Eneu-Bikini soil concentrations.
trial food products.
Since most of the animal diet consists
The results are
listed in Table 23.
oO
During the June Survey,
of vegetation and a certain amount of
soil, this ratioing procedure should
a fully
grown pig and two chickens that were
predict reasonable concentrations for
born in and raised on Bikini Island
domestic animals raised on Eneu.
were obtained for analysis.
The pig
Although coconut crabs were not
and chickens roamed freely around the
collected during the June 1975 survey,
island, so the radionuclide concentra-
they were collected during previous
tions in these animals reflect their
visits to the islands.
integrated diet.
listed for coconut crab in Table 23
Ingestion via the
meat pathway can be estimated by the
analysis of these samples.
The esti-
mates of the radionuclide concentra~
The values
were determined from data from collec-
tions in 1969, 1972, and 1974, 8°31>32
Concentrations in food products after
tion expected in meat on Eneu were
June 1975 are calculated assuming that
determined by multiplying the concen-
the only loss of radionuclides from
trations in the meat samples from
the environment is the result of the
Bikini Island by the ratio of the aver-
physical decay of each radionuclide.
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