Table A-17. Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Bererjao Island at Ailuk Atoll.
Food
137Cs
90Sr
239+240Pu
241Am
Coconut crabs
Land crabs
2.50e+00
2.50e+00
2.73e-01
2.73e-01
1.51e-03
1.51e-03
4.80e-04
4.80e-04
Chicken muscle
Chicken liver
Chicken gizzard
Pork muscle
2.99e-01
2.23e-01
1.88e-01
7.90e-01
2.07e-03
3.82e-02
7.49e-02
1.90e-04
9.80e-06
8.80e-04
1.70e-04
4.70e-06
3.90e-05
2.60e-04
1.10e-04
1.70e-05
Pork kidney
2.70e+00
6.12e-03
5.10e-05
9.90e-05
Pork liver
Pork heart
Bird muscle
Bird eggs
Chicken eggs
Pandanus fruit
Coconut fluid
9.58e-01
7.72e-01
1.10e-02
6 .60e-03
2.99e-01
3.43e+00
1.87e-01
1.24e-03
2.94e-03
5 .50e-04
2.48e-04
2.07e-03
1.40e-02
2.22e-04
1.50e-05
1.90e-05
5.50e-05
5.50e-05
9.80e-06
1.31e-05
4.13e-06
1.60e-05
1.60e-04
5.00e-06
5 .00e-06
3.90e-05
7.96e—-06
7.12e-06
Coconut milk
4.06e-01
2.04e-03
9.91e-06
1.16e-05
Drinking coconut meat
Copra meat
2.97e-01
4.06e-01
2.04e-03
9.91e-06
1.16e-05
Marshallese cake
4.06e-01
2.04e-03
9.91e-06
Rainwater
Wellwater
Malolo
Coffee/tea
7.00e-05
1.80e-04
7.00e-05
7.00e-05
2.04e-03
8.90e-05
1.00e-03
8.90e-05
8.90e-05
9.91e-06
4.00e-07
7.00e-07
4.00e-07
4.00e-07
1.16e-05
1.16e-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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