42
4.3
Internal
Dose
Brookhaven
in
the
al
measure
of
the
importance
diet
for
internal
body
burden
about
175,000
internal
33% of
that
cesium
whole-body
marrow,
about
by the
al
it
is
for
1984c;
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to
since
independent
cesium
follow
of
is
of
accounts
cesium
determine
Niltenberger
cesium,
factors.
since
to
analysis
1984b,
one
and
case,
in
4.3
picocuries
in
(.03
1979
of
dietary
etc.
Fig.
670,000
rate
dose
liver,
et
external
results
dose
by urinary
definitive
wanted
counting
it
is
et
a
assumptions
primary
for
some
80% of
in
cesium-137
dose.
picocuries
cesium
red
is
whole-body
from
the
present
The Brookhaven
whole-body
(Lessard
and other
the
of
Laboratory
supplemented
is
what
National
method
population,
The method
regarding
the
the
and plutonium-239
1980).
direct
Brookhaven
chose
exposed
strontium
-
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input
was
.624
would
be
#1 show
in
method
rem.
equal
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Thus
(whole-body)
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to
decline
1958-65
rem/year).
rem/year
the
the
in
rem/year).
tissue
this
rem/year)
doses
Brookhaven
1978
The
to
to
bone
was only
30-year
surfaces,
figure.
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G’
DOE-1982
-
overstated
the
cesium
dose
by a
(-~