PREDICTED RADIATION DOSE IN REM WITH ADOPTION OF TASK
GROUP RECOMMENDATIONS

Maximum Annual Dose*
Whole Body
Child

Bone Marrow

Adult

0.125

0.128

Child

Adult

0.148

0.149

Thirty Year Doses*
Whole Body

Bone**

2.2

11.5

Predicted Radiation Dose for Bikini Atoll
Thirty

Year

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Doses rg posts

Whole Body

Bone Marrow

5.3

9.4

Measured Terrestrial Gamma Dose - Rates in U.S.

0.04 to 0.13 Rem/yr
*See Option III, Table 11, of the Task Group report.

Dose includes

contribution from natural background, about 0.03 Rem/yr, and 0.90
Rem/30 yrs.
**The dose to bone marrow is about one-third the dose to bone.

x Presented in ''Additions to Radiological Report on Bikini Atoll,
P.F. Gustafson, Division of Biology and Medicine,'' May 1968.

Estimates do not include contribution from natural background.

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