PREDICTED RADIATION DOSE IN REM WITH ADOPTION OF TASr:
GROUP RECOMMENDATIONS

Maximum Annual Dose*

Whole Body
Child

Bone Marrow

Adult

0.125

0.128

Child

Adult

0.148

0.149

Thirty Year Doses*
Whole Body

Bone***

2.2

11.5

Predicted Radiation Dose for Bikini Atoll
Thirty Year Doses*™*%
Whole Body

Bone Marrow

5.3

9.4

Measured Terrestrial Gamma Dose - Rates in U.S.

0.04 to 0.13 Rem/yr
*See Option III, Table 11, of the Task Group report.

Dose includes

contribution from natural background, about 0.03 Rem/yr, and 0.90

Rem/30 yrs.

** The dose to bone marrow is about one-third the dose to bone.

«ck Presented in ''Additions to Radiological Report on Bikini Atoll,
P,f. Gustafson, Division of Biology and Medicine, '' May 1968.
Estimates do oot include contribution from natural background.

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