Transuranics.

Based on Table 4.2 €1 and the plutoniun-239,-240 exposure

of 0.293 pCi/d, the 30-year doses are: whole-body,.0ll rem; red
marrow, .017 rem; bone surfaces, .214 rem. The anmericium doses will be
35% of the plutonium-239,-240 ones. The total transuranic dosage is
therefore .015 rem, whole-body.
Water. In the case of catchment water (Noshkin et al 1981), the
radionuclide levels are no higher than 3% of the guides. In the case of
ground water, the same is true except for strontiun-90, whose level is
about 25% of the guide (8 pCi/liter). (These levels have been scaled to
1990.)

Inhalation.

It is the transuranics that are of consequence.

The

original estimates of respired dust were very much too high (Shinn et al
1980) and they have been reduced to make them nore realistic (Robison
1988). The matter is discussed in Note 10. Taking the daily intake to
be 0.006 pCi/d, the 30-year adult dose is .027 rem whole-body,
.041 to
the red marrow, and .005 rem to the bone surfaces.

Summary.

The individual doses (for cesium and strontiun] have

been multiplied by 1.33 to scale them back from 1990 to 1978, the year in

which DOE-1982's samples were collected.

It should be recalled that the

following estimates depend directly on the assumed diet.

Livermore Adult j0-year Dose

(type B community diet) for 1978-2008*
Source

Whole-body dose

(rem)

Red marrow dose

(rem)

Inhalation
Internal dose
-cesiun-137
“strontium-90
-~transuranics
External dose

2027

041

1.673
033
015
~590

1.673
182
023
590

Totals

2.34 **%

2.51828

DOE-1982

2.500

3.300

*
To convert 1990 to 1978, multiply by 1.33 [for cesium and strontiun.]
*e Committed effective dose equivalent
wae Committed dose equivalent

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