47
4.4
Infant
The
during
Dosage
following
the
fraction
first
of
in
residence
times,
eats
than
In
in
both
six
the
months
difference
the
the
adult
and
infant
long,
increased
Balancing
cofiitted
absorption
dose
gut
The
a much
residence
in
diluted
infant
greater
time
of
the
adult.
For
longer
by
growth.
The
infant
factors
dose
by
the
absorbed
time
factors
infant
is
is
short,
will
be
in
the
from
adult
small.
can
occur.
dose
is
will
the
infant,
it
one
another
leads
the
For
and whose
However,
so
small,
not
(rem
against
per
picocurie
Factor
at
daily
intake)
to
for
the
following
whole-body
exposure:
Radionuclide
Cesium-137
Strontium-90
Transuranics
even
important.
variables
O-1
gut
the
much greater
difference
to
appreciably
quantitatively
completely
residence
contribution
very
these
is
an appreciable
transuranic
be
The
is
account.
the
than
which
whose
is
necessarily
retained
and
residence
be
adult.
adult
whose
it
into
from
shorter
cesium-137,
plutonium-239,
if
the
may be
amount
of
between
the
taken
adult.
and
time
be
may absorb
than
body
the
case
infant
because
should
radionuclide
radionuclide
less
factors
yr
5 yr
specified
aae
10 yr
(rem/DCi/daY)
0-10
yr