Table A-5.
Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Rikuraru Island at Likiep Atoll.
Food
137Cs
90Sr
239+240Pu
24iAm
Coconut crabs
2.50e+00
2.73e-01
1.51e-03
4.80e-04
Land crabs
2.50e+00
2.73e-01
1.51e-03
4.80e-04
Chicken muscle
2.99e-01
2.07e-03
2.30e-05
3.70e-04
Chicken liver
Chicken gizzard
Pork muscle
2.2e3e-01
1.88e-01
1.80e+00
3.82e-02
7.49e-02
2.90e-04
3.40e-04
2.60e-04
7.20e-06
4.80e-04
5.70e-04
1.70e-05
9.58e-01
7.72e-01
9.50e-03
5.70e-03
2.99e-01
1.24e-03
2.94e-03
1.00e-03
4.50e-04
2.07e-03
5.50e-05
-~3.90e-05
4.60e-05
4.60e-05
2.30e-05
-6 .80e-06
1.40e-04
1.00e-05
1.00e-05
3.70e-04
Pork kidney
2.70e+00
Pandanus
Pork liver
Pork heart
Bird muscie
Bird eggs
Chicken eggs
fruit
6.12e-03
1.50e-04
8.60e-05
2.91e-01
3.80e-02
3.08e-05
1.55e-05
Breadfruit
Coconut fluid
2.72e-01
7.90e-02
1.06e-03
1.52e-04
-6 .30e-07
1.48e-05
oO.
2.88e-05
Coconut milk
4.78e-01
1.39e-03
3.55e-05
4.68e-05
Drinking coconut meat
Copra meat
Marshallese cake
Rainwater
Wellwater
Malolo
Coffee/tea
3.49e-01
4.78e-01
4.7B8e-01
7.00e-05
1.80e-04
7.00e-05
7.00e-05
1.39e-03
1.39e-03
1.39e-03
8.90e-05
1.00e-03
8.90e-05
8.90e-05
3.55e-05
3.55e-05
3.55e-05
4.00e-07
7.00e-07
4.00e-07
4.00e-07
4.68e-05
4.68e-05
4.68e-05
3.00e-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
to 1.00 x 107.
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