HISTORICAL ESTIMATES OF EXPOSURE AND POPULATION EXPOSURE
FROM TESTING AT THE NEVADA TEST SITE
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TEST SERIES THROUGH HARDTACK II, 1958
Lynn R. Anspaugh
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Health Physics Division, Nevada Operations Office
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Based upon estimates of poputaéton_and calculations of estimated
exposure made by the Test Manager's Committee to Establish Fallout
Doses, we have tabulated the population estimated exposures for
communities within established fallout patferns.
estimated exposureis 85,000 person-R.
The total population
The greatest population
exposures occurred in three genera? areas: Saint George, Utah; Ely, and
Las Vegas, Nevada.
Three events, HARRY (May 19, 1953), BEE (March 22,
1955), and SMOKY (August 31, 1957), accounted for ouer half of the
total population estimated exposure.
The bases of the caiculational
models for “infinite exposure," “estimated exposure," and’"one year
effective biological exposure” are explained.
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