3) they have made possible rapid calculations of future situations,
should new nuclear test series or accidents take place.
New nuclear tests whieh would produce large amounts of fission products
should not be started, however, since a considerable number ef people may
exceed the ICRP level of 5 pe 1375 alone due to the fallout which already exists
but has not yet reached the man. In the next twenty years even larger groups of
people Living in the reindeer and caribou meat-consuming regions of Alaska,
Canada, Scandinavia and USSR may exceed the tighter genetic maximum permissible
level for large groups of population, 5 rem, within 30 years, when to total
integrated radiation dose from all sources of artificial contamination is
reckoned with. The situation is made more grave by the fact that the very same
group of people evidently have a considerably higher than normal body content
of the natural radionuclides RaD and RaF.
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