Appendix 9 (continued)
C.

Data on Principle Isotopes of Iodine Contributing to Thyroid Dose

(From "Inhalation of Radioiodine from Fallout:

Hazards and Countermeasures" by R. Colel37)

Enax? Mev

Relative

Range in

abundance, Z%

tissue, um

50%-Dose

radius,* um

|

Iodine-13] Betas
0.246
0.332

2.2
10.6

0.807

0.8

0.606

1,000

86.4

2,100

|

150

310

Todine-132 Betas

0.681
0.934

15
20

2,500
3,900

375
625

1.583
2.111

22
21

8,400
11,900

1,500
2,400

6,800

1,200

8,100
45,800

1,460
3,300

1,300

195

1.150

22

5,400

920

Iodine-133 Betas

0.49
1.34

7
93
Iodine-134 Betas

0.87
1.55
2.65
3.51

5
65
25
5
Todine~-135 Betas

0.40

1.00
1.43

35

40
25

|

4,300
7,300

690
1,300

*The 50%-dose radius is defined, for a point source in tissue, as the distance
within which 50% of the dose, for that energy, isa distributed.

**Since this isotope with 53-min half-life is important only for about 6 hr, it

was not considered in the Marshallese thyroid dose calculations.

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