be converted to a bone-marrow population dose of 59,000 person-rad by
use of an absorbed dose/exposure factor of 0.7 rad/R (As79).
The TMCEFD inexplicably did not include Reno, Nevada, in its
tabulation.

Apparently, the only exposure in Reno was from event

BOLTZMANN of the PLUMBBOB series.

According to the PHS report (P157),

the estimated exposure at Reno was 45 mR and the population was
35,000 people.

This population estimated exposure of 1600 person-R

would rank tenth in terms of total community exposure.
As noted above, we believe that the TMCEFD overestimated the
estimated exposures for the PLUMBBOB series by a factor of two.

By

making this correction and including the exposure at Reno from event
BOLTZMANN, we calculate a corrected population estimated exposure of
19,000/2 person-R + 35,000 persons x 0.045 R = 11,000 person-R for the

PLUMBBOB series.
For the HARDTACK II series, the calculated population exposures
are smal] and all of the community estimated exposures were less than
or equal to 150 mR with the exception of Adam's Ranch, Nevada, which
received 800 mR.

As these values were evidently not corrected for

background radiation, the TMCEFD values are perhaps too high by a

factor of about 2.
Saint George, Utah, received the largest community population
estimated exposure of 18,000 person-R and also had a relatively high

cumulative estimated exposure of 3.7 R.

Other communities in the same

area were Hurricane, Washington, La Verkin, and Santa Clara and these
also received relatively high exposures as shown in Table 4.

The

communities of Ely, McGill, East Ely, and Ruth, Nevada, are similarly
located close together and represent another area of relatively large

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