Table 41
Mean Cesium-137 Levels Obtained by Whole-Body Counting, 1974
Male
"No.
Bikini
Ctirik
Rongelap
BNL med. team
nCi
8
9
22
4
Female
nCi/kg body wt.
128
262
475
2.93
No.
nCi
nCi/kg body wt.
13
13
24
73
133
304
1.15 (0.22-3.26)
2.13 (0 96-3.85)
5.13 (2.71-13.46)
1.84 (0.43-5.11)
4.05 (2.64-6.84)
7.76 (4.37-16.3)
0.0352 (0.0134-0.0791)
Table 42
Dose to Bone Marrow ( Data in mrad/year)
1958
1974
Rongelap
Rongelap
UCurik
Bikini
Internal
90Sr
lk
137Cs
Natural (49K,etc.)
Total
8
6
5
120*
44
60
44
31
44
16
+4
175
112
81
65
15
39
7
39
63
39
External
Residual gamma(invillage areas)
Natural (cUsmicetc. )
290
134**
Total
Combined total
384
54
46
104
559
166
127
169
*137Cs + 95Zn.
**High value due to increased cosmic-ray dose from above-average sunspot activity. The vear 1958 wasthe time of peak
radioactivity at Rongelap.
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1969
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