‘ Thirtyv-vr integrai cose comparisons cr living tatterns for Zikini oa 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-