Table A-40.
Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Borukka Island at Rongelap Atoll.
y
Food
137Cs
90Sr
239+240Pu
241Am
Coconut crabs
2.50e+00
2.73e-01
1.51e-03
4.80e-04
Land crabs
Chicken muscle
Chicken liver
Chicken gizzard
Pork muscle
Pork kidney
Pork liver
2.50e+00
2.99e9%00
z.44e+00
2.11e+00
8.50e+00
1.B81e+01
5.15e+00
2.73e-01
5.33e-03
1.14e-02
1.28e-02
3.60e-03
5 .93e-03
5.93e-03
1.51e-03
2.30e-05
3.40e-04
1.60e-04
3.60e—-05
1.70e-05
7.90e-05
4.80e-04
3.70e-04
4.80e-04
4.70e-04
2.50e-05
9.80e-05
z2.10e-05
Pork heart
8.50e+00
3.60e-03
1.90e-05
1.60e-04
Bird muscle
Bird eggs
Chicken eggs
Pandanus fruit
Coconut fluid
2.50e-02
1.50e-02
2.59e+00
3.36e+00
5.10e-01
8.50e-04
3.82e-04
5 .33e-03
3.50e+00
1.81e-02
2.40e-04
2.40e-04
2.30e-05
9.77e-05
3.82e-05
4.30e-05
4.30e-05
3.70e-04
3.70e-05
1.87e-05
Coconut milk
4.05e+00
1.70e-01
9.17e-05
3.00e-05
Drinking coconut meat
Copra meat
2.96e+00
4.05e+00
1.70e-01
1.70e-O1
9.17e-05
9.17e-05
3.00e-05
3.00e-05
Marshallese cake
Rainwater
Wellwater
4.05e+00
2.50e-04
2.40e-03
1.70e-01
6 .70e-04
1,.00e-03
9.17e-05
2.40e-06
1.30e-05
3.00e-05
4.00e-07
4.00e-07
Malolo
Coffee/tea
2.50e-04
2.50e-04 .
6 .70e-04
6 .70e—-04
2.40e-06
2.40e-06
4.00e-07
4.00e-07
NOTE: Value following e notation indicates power of ten. For example, |.00e-05 is equal
to 1.00 x 107-5,
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