Total Body Equilibrium Dose Equivalent Rate

per Unit Body Burden

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ft,

mRem y~! ycim!

35 Fe

2.x 10°

696,

6 x 107

6575

1 x 10?

90¢,

3x 104

ce
55

2 x 107

26
27

30

38

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"3Be
,

Figure 15 illustrates the relative contribution to the composite dose

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a

equivalent rate for each dosimetrically sjgnificant internally deposited nu-

bs

clide.

af

'

1957; however, many adults were reported to have resettled during the ne«! 3 to
6 months (Co80b).

The composite dose equivalent rate indicated that a brond

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wah

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ie

EN
jePate

For the average Rongelsp adult, the residence interval begins Junc |,

maximum of approximately several hundred millirem per year persisted for several --:
hundred days.

Most of the dose rate is attributable to the 1376, component Ce=

sium-dominaced over the entire past return period and would be of prime «voncern

for populations returning ¢o a contaminated environment years after a finsion
type initiating event.
Figure 16 illustrates two possibilities for the Utirik dose equivalent
rate resulting from the
post-return.

65

Zn body burden history during the first three years

The higher body burden resulted from use of the two measur cil O04
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