4. DOSE DOE-1982 reported doses for persons living on Rongelap Island for the period 1978-2008 ( for the corresponding period 1990-2020, they would be 25% less): (a) The “highest average amount of radiation the people might receive in any part of the body" was 2.5 rem (over 30 years). I take this to be Livermore's "integral dose” in which each year's delivery is summed for 30 years (Robison et al, 1982b, Table 17). I will compare it to the committed whole-body dose (rem) for 30 years (i.e., the committed effective dose equivalent for a standard man). (b) The corresponding bone marrow average would be 3.3 rem (Robison et al, 1982b, Table 14). I take this to be the marrow “tissue dose” and it is approximately equal to the committed dose equivalent, DOE-1982 stated that the doses are based on the condition of “local g food only from Rongelap Island" (Note 1).* However, the doses in fact had been calculated by the Livermore team (Robison, 1982b) for the community type B diet (Naidu et al, 1980). That diet involves the use of imported foods brought in on a regular basis by supply ship to supplement local produce. Without such imports, the doses would be higher. DOE-1982 used the Livermore findings, but failed to utilize those of Brookhaven National Laboratory. These included whole-body counting to determine cesium-137, a method superior to that which calcultates dose from the diet. More recently, Brookhaven's results with the fission track method to determine plutonium in urine, and from it the committed effective dose equivalent, have yielded doses which disagree with those of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory based on diet. This will be discussed. * ([*Dr. Bair has since informed me that the quoted text should be interpreted to mean that the diet contained imported food and local food only from Rongelap Island. DOE-1982 inadvertently did not mention the izported food.) 5000630