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Table 24.
ad Enewetak Atolls.+
“hole
body,
Living patterns and location
rem
3ikini pattern 1 — Eneu Island
2
Bikini pattern 6 — Bikini Island
Enewetak pattern 3° — Engebi Island
1
Enewetak pattern 1~ — Southern
Tslands
United States background radiation *
Bone
marrow,
Federal guidelines for
rem
20pulation average “B°
and bone marrow, rem
3.8
5
42
5
13
5
22
0.43
5
.0
3.0
5
“Natural background has been subtracted from the Enewetak and
Bikini living patterns.
Oop = whole dody.
“See Enewetak Radiological Survey, Vol. 2 (1973).
daased upon an annual external background dose of 100 mrem/yr at sea level.
primarily because key food products
of 4.2 rem and bone marrow dose of
will be available much sooner and the
5.8 rem for Eneu are approximately
external gamma doses are higher.
one-half those predicted for Engebi
The doses predicted for the primary
Island at Enewetak Atoll.
However the
living patterns at the two atolls are
Eneu doses are about five times higher
listed in Table 34.
than the southern island living pat-
The highest pre-
dicted doses occur for the living pat-
terns at Enewetak, which lead to the
tern involving Bikini Island, Pat-
lowest predicted doses of ail living
tern 6, at Bikini Atoll.
patterns at either atoll (whole body,
The integral
30-yr whole body and bone marrow doses
are 28 and 42 rem, respectively.
The
predicted doses are approximately 2.5
1.0 rem; bone marrow, 1.2 rem) and are
in fact lower than U.S. doses.
Bone doses in the Enewetak Radio-
times higher than those predicted for
logical Survey! were calculated for
Engebi Island at Enewetak Atoll (whole
mineral bone.
body, 11 rem; bone marrow, 16 rem),
doses were compared to the Federal
which is the living pattern leading to
guideline of 3 rem/yr for a member of
the second highest predicted doses at
the population.
the atolls.
report, and in the AEC Task group
Eneu Island, Pattern l,
These mineral bone
The doses in this
at Bikini Atoll ranks third in the
Report?” for Enewetak Atoll were cal-
list of four major living patterns at
culated for bone marrow and are com
the two atolls.
pared to the Federai guideline of
The whole body dose
~42-