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

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Adult

0. 148

0.149

Thirty Year Doses*
Bone **

Whole Body
2.2

11.5

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.

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

*x** 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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