DR. ANSPAUGH:

Could I have the first viewgraph?

(LRA-19).

This is

just to reemphasize what Dr. Ng mentioned about the calculation of the dose
from ingestion, which was the subject of his presentation.

—

It's basically the multiplication of these four terms, and the next

thing

that

was

to be considered was

the

estimate

of

uncertainty;

and

speaking. specifically about the litigants, we were in a position at the

time thatwe made the calculations for the litigants of not having the
input from Dr. Hicker 's model in terms of his estimate of uncertainty.
we estimated .the’ uncertainty
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in

these

estimates

based

upon

a

So

somewhat

different approach.’That's shown in the next viewgraph.
(LRA-20).

il

We made: the assumption, which is quite reasonably justified
—_

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on the basis of other studies reported in the literature, that all of these

13

factors were lognormal ly. distr ibuted; and we estimated their dispersion, or

14

their geometric standard deviation, as shown on this slide.

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measurements of mR/hr, 1.5 jis zFeasonable, fairly conservative number of

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the actual calculated geometric standard deviations that we got from the

1?

DRI

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d/measurement of mR/hr at a particular location.

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number.

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that number was exactly known.

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how to calculate exactly the deposition of a particular radionuclide per

22

unit of external exposure rate.

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through in a little more sophisticated method, we wil] examine the actual

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variations in that term.

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folks

when

they

looked

at “Tocations

which

had

more

Now the

than

one

This is our source term

For the purposes of this calculationzat the time, we assumed that
In other words,that we did, in fact, know

Now that is not quite true.

As we go

—

Now this is the one that really drives the uncertainty, the transport

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through the food chain.

On the basis of some work done-by people at Oak

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Ridge, Hoffman and Baes in particular, they looked at radioiodine transport

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through a food chain, through the cow milk food chain.
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Their estimate of

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