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.

DOE ARCHIVES

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