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dynamic diameter of

less

than 20 micrometers as measured by a cascade

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essentially calculate as though we had five separate measurements of air

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concentration with five different particle size distributions.

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the particle sizing parameters that are actually measured for this cascade

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So what we have always done is to separate the data by stage and

impactor.

impactor and reported by Lippman.

These are

Okay, the next viewgraph (LRA-30) is just an indication of the status
It is not completely general at

of our individual dose assessment model.

this time.

That's for several reasons, the most notable of which is that
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we don't have all of the air quality data coded and calculated.

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partly a problem of digging that data out of the Los Alamos original notes

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and going through the rather

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those data; so that we are still in the process of doing that.

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picking of a reference location, if we don't have a measured air concentra-

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tion, we are still doing that by hand at the present time, and probably

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will continue to do that by hand until we have worked our way through all

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of the locations for the significant shots.

laborious hand calculations coming up with

The next viewgraph (LRA-31)

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In this

indicates the results of these calcula-

This is done for

as an example, for shot HARRY.

It

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tions.

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gives the results of the different organs across the top by radionuclide.

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Just as an example,

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cates

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jodine-135,

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the somewhat difference in importance of radionuclides as evidenced by the

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more

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intestinal wall

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indicated,

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there are several other radionuclides of less significant importance.

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looking at the thyroid dose for shot HARRY, this indi-

The

rads.

important

radionuclides,

iodine-133, tellurium-132,

prominence

of

the

short-lived

as

shown

are

here,

and jodine-131 as an indication of

radionuclides.

The

lower

large

is the next most significant dose by inhalation here,

and the most important radionuclide is the Neptunium-239,

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and

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