Table 4.4 #1
CHILDREN:

FACTORS TO CONVERT ANNUAL OR 30-YEAR CONSTANT

INTAKE (pCi/d) TO DOSE (ren)

(The factors for adults in Tables 4.2 #1A & #15 are to be multiplied by
the relative values in this table)

Age at Exposure

Nuclide and route

2 20 yr®/

10 yro’

1 yr?’

30-year

0-6 mo>/’ exposure’ /

Cs-137

Ingestion
Inhalation

1
1

1
1

1.1
1.2

1.1
1.2

1.02
1.03

Sr-90

Ingestion

1

1.4

3.6

3.6

1.54

PU~239 4/

Ingestion
Inhalation

1
1

1.3
1.3

2.1
2.4

22.
2.4

1.63
1.35

Inhalation

1

1.4

3.7

3.7

a/

Adult.

b/

§6For children the commitment is until age 70.

cf

30 years of constant “adult" intake, beginning at age 0.

q/

Also Plutonium-240 and americium-241.

1.56

The adult dose commitment is for 50 years.

Since the

intake of children in fact is much smaller than of adults, the true value
will be much closer to l.

5000b43

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