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. -21- From this relative point