y
Table
.
Radionuclide content of various biological and physical systems at Bikini
Atoll, August 1964. Values for water are expressed as pci/liter and value
for all others as pCi/gram dry weight.
Tye
Seawater
__Mn>4
Lagoon
0
Bravo Crater
0
__co 57*®
0
0.97
cor’60
__gn®? 65 sr 90
0.73
0
5.5
0
Ry06
0.42
0
67.
om
Sh.125
0
0
9.5
3.5
1.1
__¢s 137
Se"144
12.
~
97.
pi207
-
-
1.0
0.075
-
0.84
99.
0
~
Sediments
Lagoon
Bravo Crater
1.1
26,
Plankton
0
Algae
2.5
Invertebrates
i8
2.4
6.7
92.*
260.
5.0
106.
~~
142
~
-
-
-_
2.6
781
2.9
i.l
1s.
Grouncwater*®
9
-
27
12.
Soils
1.7
-
49,
-
Rats
0
-
2.0
1.9
0.056
4.&
Sea
Birds, Shore
*
0.055 0
41.
0
-
4.8
0
0
0
-
6.1
0.34
0.56
2.6
15
4.2
Fish
Birds,
200.
1.2
-
0.036
~
68
1550
-
46,
1.4
0
1.8
21.
0
42
47.
180.
Q
0.46
6.0
1,2
0
08
0
350
13
41
170
0
0
260
0
0
0
-
0
1.6
0.43
370
-
4.9
3b.
¢e
0
21.
6.1
Cerium-144 and Europium-155 also contribute to the radioactivity in this column.
** Practically all due to high counts in Namu Island groundwater (near Bravo Crater).
1.4
0.16