Table A-66. Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Sifo Island at Ailinginae Atoll.
Food
137Cs
239+240Pu
241Am
Coconut crabs
1.66e+00
8.86e-02
6.74e-04
4.80e-—04
Land crabs
Chicken muscle
2.50e+00
2.99e-01
2.73e-01
2.07e-03
1.51e-03
2.30e-05
4.80e-04
3.70e-04
Chicken
2.23e-01
3.82e-02
3.40e-04
4.B80e-04
Pork muscle
1.40e+00
3.70e-04
6 .70e-06
1.30e-05
Pork kidney
Pork liver
Pork heart
Bird muscle
Bird eggs
Chicken eggs
2.70e+00
9.58e-01
7.72e-01
1.60e-02
9.60e-03
2.99e-01
6.12e-03
1.24e-03
2.94e-03
4.30e-04
1.93e-04
2.07e-03
1.70e-05
7.90e-05
1.90e-05
8.50e-05
8.50e-05
2.30e-05
9.80e-05
2.10e-05
1.60e-04
2.80e-05
2.80e-05
3.70e—-04
Pandanus fruit
Coconut fluid
1.32e+00
1.55e-01
QO.
2.70e-03
0.
6 .30e-06
QO.
3.96e-06
6 .45e~-06
liver
Chicken gizzard
;
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90Sr
1.88e-01
7.49e-02
2.60e-04
5.70e-04
Coconut milk
9.57e-01
2.48e-02
1.50e-05
Drinking coconut meat
6.99e-01
2.48e-02
1.50e-05
6 .45e-06
Copra meat
Marshallese cake
9.57e-01
9.57e-01
2.48e-02
2.4B8e-02
1.50e-05
1.50e-05
6 .45e-06
6 .45e-06
Rainwater
7.00e-05
8.90e-05
4.00e-07
3.00e—-07
Wellwater
Malolo
Coffee/tea
1.80e-04
7.00e-05
7.00e-05
1.00e-03
8.90e-05
8.90e-05
7.00e-07
4.00e-07
4.00e-07
2.50e-07
3.00e-07
3 .00e-07
NOTE: Value following e notation indicates power of ten. For example, !.00e-05 is equal
Pet ate ear
to 1.00 x 1077.
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