PREDICTED RADIATION DOSE IN REM WITH ADOPTION OF TASK
GROUP RECOMMENDATIONS
Maximum Annual Dose*
Whole Body
Child
Bone Marrow
Adult
0.125
0.128
Child
Adult
0.148
0.149
Thirty Year Doses*
Whole Body
Bone **
2.2
11.5
Predicted Radiation Dose for Bikim Atoll
Thirty
Year Dosesx
Whole Body
5.3
Bone Marrow
9.4
Measured Terrestrial Gamma Dose - Rates in U.S.
0.04 to 0.13 Rem/yr
“See Option III, Table 11, of the Task Group report. Dose includes
contribution from natural background, about 0.03 Rem/yr, and 0.90
Rem/30 yrs.
** The dase to bone marrow is about one-third the dose to bone.
“iPresented in ''Additions to Radiological Report on Bikini Atoll,
P.F. Gustafson, Division of Biology and Medicine, '' May 1968.
Estimates do not include contribution from natural background.
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