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Hearings before the Special Subcommittee on Radiation of the Joint
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Its Effects on Man," May 27-29, June 3-7, 1957, Parts 1 and 2.
Government Printing Office, Washington, 1957.
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General presentation of cesium-137 content of people
and milk content is roughly proportional to rainfall.
The internal
cesium-~-137 dosage in 1957 was .19 mr/yr and the external cesium-137
dosage in 1957 was about .84 mr/yr for an average of 44 micromicro-
curies of cesium-137 per gram of potassium and 41 in 1956.
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discrimination factor of 1.8 favorable to potassium relative to
cesium was found in the body uptake of cesium-137 in milk and about
half of the cesium-137 was found to come from milk and half from
other foods.
The fact that the body content in 1957 is not
appreciably higher than it was in 1956 strongly suggests that the
principal pickup is from foliar assimilation and ncs from the soil
because this would be proportional to the rate rather than the
total fallout.
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