Facts Associated with the Continuance of the Nuclear Weapons Testing Program - Page 4
September 5, 1957
TABLE IT
AVERAGE ENVIRONMENTAL INTERNAL WHOLE BODY AND BONE RADIATION DOSES
N
P
dle
‘£
*
Potassium forty
Carbon fourteen
Radium in bones - local and non-uniform
(depends on water and food sources)
Present*® Strontium ninety in adult bones
Present* Strontium ninety in childrens bones
Total bone dose due to Radium and other
sources
..
“Projected Strontium ninety bone dose
rate if tests continue indefinitely
at the present rate
ar/yr
25
1
5=370
0.3
1
130—500
3-30
&
-
The even smaller doses due to natural causes in turn also produce no detectable
diological effects: It thus seems ressonable that the still amaller radiation levels
due to fallout, even though the weapons tests be continued indefinitely, will produce
no detectable effects.
It should be emphasised that even though we were, until 50
yeacs ago, unavare of it, that all animals and all men and all other living forme have
from even the remotest times been subjected to these low levels of radiation, and ap-
parently there is adequate immmity built into these living forms to protect them from
injury and to allow them to continue to exist indefinitely although continuously ir-
radiated by a few hundred ur/yrthe largest
Three successive levels of radiation dose rate have been mentioned,
ich, the ore established as safe for vorkers in the radiation indus-
try ty the NCRP, produces no observable biological effect.
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