consumed outdoors during passage of the fallout cloud.

The adult mean thyroid

absorbed doses at Rongelap and Utirik were 13 and 1.7 grays respectively.

The

child mean thyroid absorbed doses were 40 grays at Rongelap and 4.9 grays at
Utirik.

The overall mean cancer risk in the exposed population of 251 people

was 1.1 thyroid cancers per 10,000 people per gray per year.
risk for cancer was 18 years.

The mean time at

The overall mean nodule risk was 8.4 nodules per

10,000 people per gray per year and the mean time at risk for nodules was also
18 years.

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