Table 19, Radionuclide concentrations in birds and bird eggs at Bikini Atoll. Concentration, Source Island Species ple Tissue 60, Co 137,. Cs Lynch et at® Oroken Fairy tern 1 Muscle 0.26 0.079 — —_ Noddy tern 5 Muscle 1.3 0.15 — — '". 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0.017 0.013 _ Bird eggs — Shelled 0.06 0.13 0.07 — He1d2® " " " " " " " Vic Nelson, 7’ unpublished " " Nam " " Sam pCi/g wet weight " 90... Sv 239,240 ? Pu ees — qe emmy pee ee re teartend ee . 90 the resulting dose compared to SI 137 . C . and s is very small . , 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 M50 004978