Table A-20.
Radionuclide concentrations in local food products (pCi/g wet weight) for
Aon Island at Utirik Atoll.
Food
137Cs
g0Sr
239+240Pu
24i1Am
Coconut crabs
Land crabs
Chicken muscle
Chicken liver
Chicken gizzard
Pork muscle
Pork kidney
Pork liver
Pork heart
Bird muscle
Bird eggs
Chicken eggs
2.50e+00
2.50e+00
2.99e-01
2.23e-01
1.88e-01
2.80e+00
2.70e+00
9.58e-01
7.72e-01
1.40e-02
8.40e-03
2.99e-01
2.73e-01
2.73e-01
2.70e-03
3.82e-02
7.49e-02
6 .90e-04
6.12e-03
1.24e-03
2.94e-03
8 .00e-04
3.60e-04
2.70e-03
1.51e-03
1.51e-03
2.60e-05
3.40e—-04
2.60e-04
2.00e-06
1.80e-04
1.50e-04
1.90e-05
2.30e-04
2.30e-04
2.60e—-05
4.80e-04
4.80e-04
5.10e-05
4.80e-04
5.70e-04
7.30e-06
3.40e-04
8.30e-05
i .60e-04
1.00e-05
1.00e-05
5.10e-05
Pandanus fruit
Breadfruit
Coconut fluid
1.08e+00
9.01e-01
4.37e-01
1.45e-01
1.71le-02
7.72e-03
2.38e-05
§.16e-05
3.60e-05
8.81e-05
oO.
5 .94e-04
Drinking coconut meat
2.97e+00
7.55e-03
8.58e-05
9.69e-04
Copra meat
Marshallese cake
Rainwater
Wellwater
Malolo
4.08e+00
4.08e+00
7.00e-05
1.80e-04
7.00e-05
7.55e-03
7.55e-03
8.90e-05
1.00e-03
8.90e-05
8.58e-05
8.58e-05
4.00e-07
7.00e-07
4.00e-07
9.69e-04
9.69e-04
3.00e-07
2.50e-07
3.00e-07
Coconut milk
Coffee/tea
4.08e+00
7.55e-03
7.00e-05
8.90e-05
8.58e-05
4.00e-07
9.69e-04
3.00e-07
NOTE: Value, following e notation indicates power of ten. For example, 1.00e-05 is equal
to 1.00 x 1077.
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