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This is again the dose via inhalation only,

and this compares to a

calculation of about 40 rads via ingestion.
These results I have for all the litigants, if you're interested in
They have not been handed out.

them.

The material

gets

to

be very

voluminous considering each individual radionuclide in each event for each

individual.”
The. next viewgraph (LRA-32) is the summary of these doses, which has
been handed out for each litigant.

Again this is our numbers for shot

HARRY

numbers

for

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:

the

that

were

on

the

previous

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viewgraph; and you see it summed up here now for the total events of 2.9

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rads to the thyroid and0.4%rads to the lower large intestine.
The next viewgraph (LRA-33).

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The next problem in terms of providing

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doses for the

litigants. was to- add up all

these doses that we've been

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talking

from

the

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inhalation pathway, and also to deal with the doses from in utero exposure.

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There were some problems in achieving that summation, because as it turned

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out,

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calculations provided us with geometric meansand doses at the 1%,

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90%,

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geometric standard deviation.

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about

the groups had

the

external

pathway,

ingestion

provided different kinds of data.

pathway,

the

The Los Alamos
10%,

and 99% probability levels from which one- can, of course, extract a

We,

on

the other hand,

a have provided

an arithmetic mean

and have

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estimated a geometric standard deviation.

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assumed that the geometric standard deviation for the-dose from inhalation

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was the same as it is for the dose from ingestion.

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We have; I

should mention,

=

So how do we deal with these different kinds of distributions, and so

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forth?

The next viewgraph (LRA-34) shows how we did this.

We have summed

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the arithmetic means, and where we had a geometric mean we can calculate an

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arithmetic mean.

We have assumed that the one thing you can do when you

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