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

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