Il. BEIR-III A. Cancer (Table V-4) Lifetime Risk of Cancer Death (deaths/10°/rad) Model Single exposure to 10 rad Absolute Relative Continuous Exposure to 1 rad/yr Absolute Relative L-Q, LQ-L 77 226 67 182 L-L, L-C 167 501 158 430 QL, QL 10 28 ---- ---- B. Birth Defects--pages 166-169 (mean parental age = 30 years) 1 rem per generation (1 rem parental exposure) per 108 live offspring ———*» 5 to 75 birth defects, this is 0.0005 --0.0075%--First generation Spontaneous rate is 10.7%, thus 1 rem will increase the rate from 10.7% to 10.7005--10.7075% . 0005 “9.7 0.000047 = 0.0047% 0075 10.7 0.0007 .= 0.07%