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Table 41

Mean Cesium-137 Levels Obtained by Whole-Body Counting, 1974
Male

No.

Bikini
Utirik

nCi

8
9

Rongelap

128
26?

22

BNL med. team

Female

475

4

nCi/kg bodywt.

No.

nCi

1.84 (0.43-5.11)
4.05 (2.64-6.84)

13
13

73
133

7.76 (4.37-16.3)

2.93

24

0.0332 (0.0134-0.0791)

nCi/kg bodywe.

1.15 (0.22-3.26)
2.13 (0.96-3.8)

304

3.13 (2.71-13.46)

Table 42
Dose to Bone Marrow(Data in mrad/year)
1958

1974

Rongelap

Rongelap

Utirik

Bikini

Internal

90Sr

11

13TCs

Natural (4°K,etc.)

8

5

60

31

44

44

175

112

81

65

250
134**

15
39

7
39

65
39

384

34

46

104

939

166

127

169

44

Total

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44

16

External
Residual gamma(in village areas)
Natural (cosmicetc.)
Total
Combined total

*137Cs 4 657,
**High value due to increased cosmic-ray dose from above-average sunspotactivity. The year 1958 was the timeof peak
radioactivity at Rongelap.

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