RMI Nuclear Justice Documents

May 8, 198]

HEALTH EFFECTS ESTIMATES USING LLL REVISED DOSE DATA
Living Imported
Coconuts
Maximum
tondition
Food
from Northern Individual

Islands

inewetak,

Yes

No

fedran

No
No

sijire or
Aomon

injebi

Japtan *%,

Yes

Yes

Average
Whole Body

Dose (mrem) Dose (mrem)
15.3

Birth
Defects**

Average
Bone Marrow

(% Increase) Dose (mrem)

Cancer***
(% Increase)

100

0.02

120

0.048

200
560

0.04
0.112

260
630

0.104
0.252

162.0
174.0
303.0
327.0

1100
1200
1900
2100

0.22
0.24
0.38
0.42

1200
1200
2100
2300

0.48
0.48
0.84
0.92

873.0
792.0
1662.0
1515.0
258.0
450.0

5700
5200
10,000
9200
1900
2200

1.14
1.04
2.0
1.84
0.38
0.44

6100
5600
11,000
10,000
2600
3700

2.44
2.24
4.4
4.0
1.04
1.48

No
Yes

48.0

33.0
87.0

320

Yes
Yes
No
No

No
Yes
No
Yes

Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No

No
Yes
No
Yes
No*
No*

0.064

340

—

0.136

* No coconuts from Enjebi either.
** Based on BEIR I value of 0.2% increase per rem for birth defects (1% at equilibrium).
*** Based on BEIR I value of 0.4% increase per rem for cancer.