Table 16.

Radionuclide concentration in fish at Bikini Atoll.
Concentration,

SLbb00S

pCi/g dry weight
collected

Island

Apr 1975

Eneu

Goatfish

comple

6906

- 137o¢

5

1.6

0.18

0.23

EW

8

1.0

0.18

<0.07

EW

6

0.27

0.25

0.07

EW

6

0.19

0.18

<0.07

"

"

"

"

"

"

"

Grouper

Muscle

1

0.16

0.43

"

"

Parrot fish

Muscle

1

_

Convict surgeon

EW

10

EW

12

EW

"

Enidrik

Dec 1974

Namu

"

"

"

Enidrik

Convict surgeon

"

Mullet

"

May 1972

Namu

Mullet

"

"

"

"

"

"

"
"

"
"

Bikini
Jt

Eneman

"

0.43

<0.03

—

"

1.7

4.5

<0.26

—

"

0.68

0,48

0.17

0.020

"

9

2.0

0,32

0.12

2

1.4

0.32

<0,06

—

“0.06

_

0.14

0.05

0.008
0.004

"

"

4,

0.25

—

—

EW

12

4.1

0,59

0.16

_

"

EW

2

EW

10

"

EW

14

"

EW

16

EW

u

Nam

Goatfish

"

"

Snapper

"

EW

Muscle

1.0

0.020
0.045

"

14

18

0.24
0.18

<0.002

"

0.12
0.72

"

3
3

0.82

<0.01

3.50
1.90

Convict surgeon

EW
EW

unpublished

—

EW

Mullet
"

0.003

<0.03

1

"
"

"
"

Vic Nelson,
"

Entire

Bikini

0.003
0.005

Goatfish

Apr 1974

Source

"

4

EW

239,2405,,

—

EW

"

90¢,

EW

"

Namu

"

Tissue

"

Dec 1974

-Ge-

Species

fn
"
Lynch et at.

1.2

_

—

"

0.7

—

—

"

0.51

0.15

—

"

0

0.20

0.07

—

"

1

0.67

0.08

<0.03

—

"

6

3.2

_

"

12-26

0.51
0.99

1.0

—

—

"

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