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PREDICTED RADIATION DOSE IN REM WITH ADOPTION OF TASK
GROUP RICCNCASNDATIONS

Maximum Annual Dose*
he
/

.

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 Doses***
Whole Body

5.3

Bone Marrow

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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