New YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER Institute of Environmental Medicine 401618 550 FIRST AVENUE, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10016 AREA 212 679-3200 R ANTHONY ]. LANZA RESEARCH LABORATORIES AT UNIVERSITY VALLEY LONG MEADOW ROAD, STERLING FOREST, TUXEDO, NV. 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. PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED 2 2ng 4 =. . we