II. BEIR-III A. Cancer (Table V-4) Lifetime Risk of Cancer Death _. (deaths/10°/rad) Single exposure to 10 rad Relative Continuous Exposure to 1 rad/yr Model Absolute Absolute Relative L-Q, LQ-L 77 226 67 182 L-L, L-L 167 50] 158 430 Q-L, Q-L 10 28 ---- ---- B. Birth Defects--pages 166-169 (mean parental age = 30 years) 1 rem per generation (1 rem parental exposure) per 10° live offspring ———~*5 to 75 birth defects, this is 0.0005 --0.0075%--First generation Spontaneous rate is 10.7%, thus 1 rem will increase the rate from 10.7% to 10.7005--10.7075% e 0005 _= “97 0075 0.7 _- 0.000047 == 0.0047% sr 0.0007 = - 0. 07% 144