TMCEFD said and thought they were using the effective biological

exposure model (Sh59).

However, one of their input papers prepared by

Nagler and Telegadas (NaS6) contains a table of conversions from
infinite exposure; this is reproduced in Table 2.

A comparison of

Tables 1 and 2 demonstrates that they were indeed using the estimated
“exposure model.

Further, Nagler and Telegadas stated that the data

reproduced; in Table 2 were supplied by Dunning and he (Du81) has
conf ifned-that—the relevant model was indeed that of estimated exposure.
For the.PLUMBBO8 (1957) series, an alternate approach was used by

the TNCEFD. Larson et al. (La59) collected many samples of PLUNBBOB
fallout, returned: them to the laboratory, and measured the rate of decay
of gamma emissions.

From,these data, they constructed a composite

PLUMBBOB gamma-decay curve-and the TMCEFD used these data in place of

Eq. [7].

They did not appreciatethat the rate of gamma emission is not

adequate directly as a model for_external exposure rate, as the energy

per gamma emitted changes with time,and there is no indication that

their data were corrected for the efficiency of the detector as a
function of energy.

The TMCEFD, Sn59, state that the PLUMBBOB data so

Calculated were about 50% higher than woul d—have been calculated with
the infinite exposure model.

In terms of the-estimated exposure model,

we conclude that the PLUMBBOB estimates are too trigh by about 100%.
For PLUMBBOB, the TMCEFO also used film badge data to estimate exposure
for some communities.

As the film badges were not “Te-the field for a

full year, they used a rough model of multiplying the_film badge

reading by 1.3 to approximate infinite exposure and then dividing by 2
to approximate estimated exposure.

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