Vhyvoid Noe -!
Marshal!
Persons Exposed
Exposure
Whole Bod
Dose (re
“vain
Do
Estimated Added Thyroid
Dose from I*, (rads)
700 ~ 1400
160
No. in
Group
19
36
<10
=~10
175
175
Ailingnae Island
= 10
69
69
275 =
>10
550
55
Utirik Island
<10
=10
14
14
55 =
110
15
40
59
Control Marshallese
<10
= 10
SAAIHOUY FOG
Rongelap Island
Ov
on
Age at
5 Sucluding Uypothyroidism in the
' Populations as of March 1968
61
133
No. and Percent
with Nodules
17 (90%)
2 (5.5%)
0
1 (12,57)
0
2 (3.4%)
0
3 (2.3%)
Gofman,
Patimates of the doses to the. thyroida of the Rongelapese were recomputed by R, James and J.
people
Utirik
and
Ailingnae
the
UCRL #12273, December, 1964, Estimates of the thyroid doses of
were by proportionality to the respective whole body gamma doses,