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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

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