PREDICTED RADIATION DOSE IN REM WITH ADOPTION OF TASK
GROUP RECOMMENDATIONS

Maximum Annual Dose*

Whole Bodv
Child

Bone Marrow

Adult

0.125

Child

0.128

Adult

0.148

0.149

Thirty Year Doses*
Whole Body

Bone **

2.2

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Predicted Radiation Dose for Bikini Atoll

Thirty Year Doses***
Whole Body

5.3

Bone Marrow

9.4

Measured Terrestrial Gamma Dose - Rates in U.S.

0.04 to 0.13 Rem/yr
*See Option III, Table 11, of the Task Group report. Dose includes
contribution from natural background, about 0.03 Rem/yr, and 0.90

Rem/30 yrs.

**The dose to bone marrow is about one-third the dose tm bone.

**%* Presented in "Additions to Radiological Report on Bikini Atoll,
P.F. Gustafson, Division of Biology and Medicine, '' May 1968.

Estimates do not include contribution from natural background.

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