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residents and is referenced to June 1, 1957.

137 Cs daily

activity ingestion rate was approximately 4 times the population mean value.
The standard deviation observed for the adult activity ingestion rate distribution was 41% of the mean value, 39% of the mean value for young adults, 48% for
adolescents, 38% for children, and 54% forinfants. Adol¢ecents and infants

exhibited a broader distribution than adits;‘wpilechildren showed a fractional
variation in ‘activity ingestion rate similar to that of aqultsy. Breast feeding
versus coconut sap supplements would have contributed to che greater variation
observed in infants.

Adolescents and young adults were rhe population subgrouy:s

which have been observed to move frequently between atojle.

This mobility would

lerd to greater variations in the daily. activity ingestion rates relative to
those observed in the more stationary population subgroups.

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Figure 12 also exhibited g wave pattern; however, a distinct difference he-

tween males and females was indicated.

This difference arose from the use of

vaiues for Re listed in Table 3 which were derived from urine data for male and
fezale residents at Rongelap Atoll.

Its major impact was on the dose equivalent

rate, not on the total dose equivalent; and its effect was to cause the dose
equivalent rate for males to rise and decline more rapidly than for females.
Figures 13a and 13b summarize the individual data for 906, for all

was not significant.

A t-test was performed for consecutive urine measurement

data during the 23 year residence interval.

The results indicate that becauye

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Rongelap residents and were referenced to June 1, 1957.

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