Table A-3.
Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Jeltonet Island at Likiep Atoll.
Food
137Cs
908r
239+240Pu
241Am
Coconut crabs
Land crabs
Chicken muscle
2.50e+00
2.50e+00
2.99e-01
2.73e-01
2.73e-01
2.07e-03
1.51e-03
1.51e-03
2.30e-05
4.80e-04
4.80e-04
3.70e-04
Chicken
2.23e-01
3.82e-02
3.40e-04
4.80e-04
=
Chicken gizzard
liver
1.88e-01
7.49e-02
2.60e-04
5.70e-04
B
Pork kidney
Pork liver
Pork heart
Bird muscle
Bird eggs
Chicken eggs
2.70e+00
9.58e-01
7.72e-01
9.50e-03
5.70e-03
2.99e-01
6.12e-03
1.24e-03
2.94e-03
1.00e-03
4.50e-04
2.07e-03
1.50e-04
5 .50e-05
-3.90e-05
4.60e-05
4.60e-05
2.30e-05
8.60e-05
-6 .80e-06
1.40e-04
1.00e-05
1.00e-05
3.70e-04
~
Pandanus fruit
Coconut fluid
Coconut milk
2.0le-O1
3.69e-02
1.06e-01
0.
0.
0.
Rainwater
7.00e-05
Wellwater
Malolo
1.80e-04
7.00e-05
Pork muscle
Drinking coconut meat
Copra meat
Marshallese cake
Coffee/tea
1.80e+00
7.76e-02
1.06e-01
1.06e-01
7.00e-05
2.90e-04
7 .20e-06
1.70e-05
QO.
QO.
QO.
0.
0.
0.
8.90e-05
4.00e-07
3.00e-07
1.00e-03
8.90e-05
7.00e-07
4.00e-07
2.50e-07
3.00e-07
0.
0.
0.
8.90e-05
QO.
0.
0.
4.00e-07
QO.
0.
0.
3.00e-07
NOTE: Value, following e notation indicates power of ten. For example, |.00e-05 is equal
to 1.00 x 1077.
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