Appendix Pable 2.
.
Radioactivity in fish from Rongelap Island,
Rongelap Atoll, collected July 23, 1957
(Values expressed in uc/k@
Common name
Genus and species
Surgeonfish
Acanthurus
Bone
Liver
0.341
0.199
0.590
Squirrelfish
Holocentrus
028
.058
353s:
6.090
Butterfly fish
Chaetodon
028
O91
.178
Grouper
Epinepnalus
merra
019
112
. 468
nigricans
diadema
eitrinellus
Muscle
.083
285
Grouper
Cephalopholis
-021
.121
1.400
Grouper
C. urodelus
.014
. 068
.482
Damselfish
Pomacentrus
Goatfish
Mulloidichthys
Goatfish
leopardus
melas
.087
.134
. 309
-027
.104
.018
069
131
-222
178
224
Upenaus
185
.106
. 168
Lizard fish
Synodus variegatus
038
.205
458
Threadfish
Polydactylus
168
Jack
Wrasse
samoensis
berber
.021
-O12
.2e2
.189
.013
-955
273
.173
.213
1.040
Carangoides
029
.098
2295
Halichoeres
.014
.O79
08%
sexfilis
ferdau
trimaculatus
Homogenized muscle tissue
from 13 species (above)
19 specimens (1 gram tissue from each). Three
plates made from aggregate.
.029
083
.122
~375
473