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west and finally curled down the west coast.
The highest recorded
amount of I-13] in milk was 1,240 micromicrocuries per liter at
Spokane, Washington, on June 21, 1962.
Evaluation
The top of Range II of the Federal Radiation Council Guides
for normal peacetime operations is a daily intake of 100 micromicroeurtes of I-131.
up to one year.
These intake values may be averaged over periods
The Federal Radiation Council is currently work-
ing on Guides appropriate to muclear weapons testing.
Based on the usual assumptions, the highest recorded stations
(Palmer, Alaska and Salt Lake City, Utah) would correspond approximately to a 0.5 rad dose to the thyroid of children.
The
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council report,
Pathological Effects of Thyroid Irradiation, stated in part
", . . There is no evidence at hand, except for one doubtful case
in a child, that any of the treatments for hyperthyroidism has
produced a thyroid cancer, although doses have ranged from a few
thousand rad upward.
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