PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVEC
This is again the dose via inhalation only,
and this compares to a
calculation of about 40 rads via ingestion.
These results I have for all the litigants, if you're interested in
They have not been handed out.
them.
The material
gets
to
be very
voluminous considering each individual radionuclide in each event for each
individual.”
The. next viewgraph (LRA-32) is the summary of these doses, which has
been handed out for each litigant.
Again this is our numbers for shot
HARRY
numbers
for
7
:
the
that
were
on
the
previous
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viewgraph; and you see it summed up here now for the total events of 2.9
11
rads to the thyroid and0.4%rads to the lower large intestine.
The next viewgraph (LRA-33).
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The next problem in terms of providing
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doses for the
litigants. was to- add up all
these doses that we've been
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talking
from
the
15
inhalation pathway, and also to deal with the doses from in utero exposure.
16
There were some problems in achieving that summation, because as it turned
17
out,
18
calculations provided us with geometric meansand doses at the 1%,
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90%,
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geometric standard deviation.
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about
the groups had
the
external
pathway,
ingestion
provided different kinds of data.
pathway,
the
The Los Alamos
10%,
and 99% probability levels from which one- can, of course, extract a
We,
on
the other hand,
a have provided
an arithmetic mean
and have
22
estimated a geometric standard deviation.
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assumed that the geometric standard deviation for the-dose from inhalation
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was the same as it is for the dose from ingestion.
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We have; I
should mention,
=
So how do we deal with these different kinds of distributions, and so
26
forth?
The next viewgraph (LRA-34) shows how we did this.
We have summed
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the arithmetic means, and where we had a geometric mean we can calculate an
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arithmetic mean.
We have assumed that the one thing you can do when you
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