they were based upon measured air concentrations.
you a total pCi/m3.

That measurement gives

Then you multiply by the length of the sampling in

hours; multiply ‘by a breathing rate which is age specific, of course.

we want to calculate for a particular radionuclide.
Hicks' source term calculations.

Then

We go back to Harry

For any radionuclide, we can look at the

ratio of that radionuclide to the total activity; then that multiplied by
this, of course,

then gives us the activity of a particular radionuclide;

and then, again, our dose factor.

Again it depends on human metabolism and

is an age specific number.
LO

Well, the-key thing here is then this measured air concentrations, and

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the next viewgraph (LRA-22) we've gone through before.

Our preference

is

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to use data collected by this device, which is a Casella cascade impactor.

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It has four stages followed by an after-filter so that we typically were

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able to recover data as shown ‘tn the next viewgraph (LRA-23) where we have

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the raw log sheets from Los Alamos now where we have the count data for

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each one of these five stages.

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data to make our calculations.

We have actually gone back to this original
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Now the problem with this data, or one problem with this data, is that

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what is shown here in terms of the diameters is not an aerodynamic diameter

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that we want to enter the

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through and recalculated these diameters.

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ICRP lung dynamics- model with;

If I could have the next viewgraph (LRA-24).

This is again some of

the raw data that we find in the files from Los Alamos.
trace

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original

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calculated out to have a median diameter of 42 microns.
in

of

their

the

activity

calculation.

and

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errors

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dramatic change on some of these numbers.

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But, nevertheless,

as I

It

their

makes

attempt

slight

so we have gone

to fit.

This is their
This one was

‘We have found some

corrections.

It

has

a

We get our calculation of 18.

indicated, we have found more accurate calibration

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