Table 22. . . . 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. ~3]- 9009981