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ANTHONY ]. LANZA RESEARCH LABORATORIES AT UNIVERSITY VALLEY
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MAIL AND TELEPHONE ADDRESS: 550 FIRST AVENUE, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10016
August 30,
1977
Dr. Robert A. Conard
Medical Department
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, New York
11973
Dear Bob:
My apologies
for taking so
long in sending
results of our measurements of the
burdens of Ms._
measured Ms.
on June
27,
you the
*?°Pu and '’’Cs body
As you know, we
1977
in our whole body counter
here at New York University with detectors positioned to
determine the possibility of lung and/or whole body contamination by photon-emitting radionuclides.
Ms.
told us
that she spent eight months on Rongelap during the years
1975-1976, three months on Majuro ‘and then nine additional
months on Rongelap during 1976-1977.
volunteer and
teaches
She is a Peace Corps
elementary school on
the
atoll.
She
mentioned that she did swim in the lagoons “a bit" although
this practice was generally forbidden to women.
She lived
in a plywood dwelling and ate rice, flour, fash, coconut
meat and coconut crabs.
Sne
smoke ("maybe occasionally")
is 25 years old, does not
and has never had nuclear
medical procedure involving the administration of any radionuclide.
All anthropometric parameters
are given in Table 1.
Ms.
Mr.
collected a
content.
and gave us
few days
as measured at this laboratory
was accompanied by
two one-liter samples of urine
earlier for measurement of plutonium
For details of our in vivo counting geometries and
lower limits of detection, Irefer you to my letter of
April
Drs.
18,
1977
in which I give data on the measurement of
of Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
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