detail
and
quality,
Table 11. Anaiysis of cistern
water sampled on 21
eune 1975 on Bikini
Island (Bikini Atoil).
for data cn the cnemical
che original report should be
consulted.
The data from the cistern water in
Bikini Isiand are given in Table il.
3ldg.
Sround water data irom Sikini and Eneu
are listed in Table :2.
5
‘ft is assumed
the dose
-.3(2)
1.1€11)
1.9(2)
‘>Ci/1)*
739,240,
7.9 « 1073¢5)
13.7 « 1073 (4)
29.0 « 1073(2)
1.69 x 1072
“The values in parentheses are the l-o
assessment via this ocathwav was based
counting errors expressed as percentage
upon the average values listed in
Table 11.
706,
School ..7(2) 1.42(7)
Mean 2.0
1.47
only the cistern water will de used
Therefore,
Radionuclides
2.51)
24
in the alternate living patterns that
for consumption.
27,
of the iisted values.
The ground water data are
presented for comparison in the event
ground water were used as potable
resulting from consumption of cistern
water.
water.
The 10-,
30-,
The estimates based upon con-
sumption of Eneu ground water (Table
50-, and 70-vr inte-
gral doses resulting from the consump-
15) also exceed those based upon con-
tion of Bikini cistern water are listed
sumption of cistern water:
in Table 13 and are cr the order of a
50-,
few millirem for whoie body and bone
from 0.2 to 0.4 rem for bone marrow
marrow.
and 0.03 to 0.05 rem for whole body.
These are the doses used in
and
the 30-,
70-yr integral doses range
the subsequent dose summary tables.
All doses were based upon an intake of
The whole body and liver dose is con13765
tributed aimost entirely by
.
water of 2 l/da,.
Strontium-90 and cesium-137 are
MARINE FOOD CHAIN
approximately two orders of magnitude
llected
No marine samples were co
higher than 239,240Pu in contributing
to bone marrow dose.
Tables 14 and 15
during the June 1975 survey.
This: was
compare the doses based upon the con-
the result of both limited manpower:
sumptions of Bikini and Eneu ground
and time and the fact that the marine
water.
pathway contributed much less to the
The 30-, 50-, and 70-yr doses
resulting from consumption of Bikini
gamma radiation dose than the terres-
ground water range from 1 to 2 rem for
trial and external gamma pathways at
bone marrow and 0.4 to 0.7 rem for
Enewetak.-?
whole body.
of view, we expected both atolls to be
cant
This is a very signifi-
increase over the estimates
very similar.
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From this relative point