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. f T | T iQ (4 PN 0.6 L. fl | Wo TTT vw a LAL, és. ov” ~. 02h i ‘ \Zn 3 a) \ 0.1 sO 1954 \ 1957 4 °*— Medical team 1963 1961 ogz a po 1959 7 ie \ 1967 1965 T m Bone4 NO T T T a 1 Rongelap Peor \ T ' ~ Late BL Qa sik a T i 4 | people o| E nF = ' ~AL 1 05% ST 137 Rongelap , “~s ~137Cs 1971 Udrik, Bikini, 4 — 1974 1969 Figure 56. Body burdens of gammaemitters, obtained by whole-body gamma spectroscopy (0, !37Cs; @, ®Zn). 10 x | 3 ' Egt a! r 3 ' 1%, _ \ y ; ‘ 1 ' 1 ; \ vows \ | ¥ Bikinic | |b iy a 1959 1957 . A \ y. AY vol Y 1 } ot Apone 1954 ™ 1963 1961 1967 1965 Uurik 1971 bo 1974 1969 Figure 57. Body burdensof strontium-90, obtained by radiochemical analysis of urine.