Table 23. Measured and estimated radionuclide concentrations in food products on Bikini and Eneu Islands at Bikini Atoll. Concentration, pCi/g wet weight 1 January 1975 90 Sr Food product l3log 600, 239,240, 90.5 <1.30(-2)" <3.59(-2) <4.81(-3) 108 <O.111 <1.06(-2) Bikini terrestrial foods Pandanus fruit 7.60 Breadfruit 46.7 17.3 <6.12(-3) Coconut meat (dry wt) 1,82 Coconut milk 0.851 50.6 <0.103 <9.01¢-3) Domestic meat 0.201 22.2 <1.05(-2) <1.42(-2) Coconut crabs 220 Garden vegetables — 12.9 47.6 1.09 6.8(-3) 56.7 7.40(-3) <5.56(-4) Eneu terrestrial foods 5.99 <2.82(~3) <5.03(-4) 7.16 <8.74(-3) <1.86(-2) 3. Breadfruit 0,924 Coconut meat (dry wt) 9.76(-2) 09 Coconut milk 4.56(-2) 3.35 <B.07(-3) <7.41(-3) Domestic meat <1.08(-2) 1.47 <8.24(-4) <1.17(-3) 220 Garden vegetables ae we ees ae emtweeee Oeee en oe! <3. 96 (-4) 0.407 Coconut crabs Ne allhltneae! Aa a otgyn ee Ste at BS: athe ahtee. oNAy neyo <1.02(-3)% = Pandanus fruit 47.6 0.689 3.75 1.09 6.8(-3) 5.82(-4) “Numbers in parentheses indicates powers of 10, i.e., indicates x 1072. <4.57(-5) (-2) This conservative approach was predicted concentrations in the food adopted products because we lack any definitive and, asa result, would information that would indicate that reduce the predicted doses via the environmental processes might result terrestrial pathway. in more rapid, effective removal of The dietary intake values in Table 3 and the concentrations radionuclides from the environment. Any environmental process that might in Table 23 were cused to generate the pCi/da intake of The results cause the removal of radionuclides each of the radionuclides. from the environment more rapidly than in Table 24 are for a diet entirely the physical decay of the radionu- from Eneu Island, while those in clides would, of course, reduce the Table 25 are for a diet solely from A 9009982 -32-