19 4. DOSE DOE-1982 reported three doses for the Rongelap people who on Rongelap Island for the period 1978-2008, tacitly assuming a diet. To this DOE-1982 added the stipulation that the diet woulK based on "local food only from Rongelap Island" (Note 1). would live Feonstant be It should be pointed out, however, that the stipulation of J"local food only" is incorrect. The doses used by DOE-1982 were estimated by Robison et al (1982b), who based them on the type B community d¥et described by Naidu et al (1980). That diet involves imported fdods brought in on a regular basis by supply ship. The three doses are as follows: (1) The “highest average amount of radiation the people might receive in any part of the body" was 2.5 rem. I take this to b Livermore's "integral dose" in which each year's delivery is sugmed over 30 years (Robison et al, 1982b, Table 17). I will compare it tq@ the committed whole-body dose (rem) over 30 years (i.e., the commitfed effective dose equivalent for a standard man). (2) The corresponding bone marrow average would be 3.3 reg (Robison et al, 1982b, Table 14). I take this to be the "tissue dose" agd it is approximately equal to the committed dose equivalent. (3) The highest dose to any one person was set at 0.4 remj being three times the average dose. this For orientation, it may be said that DOE's whole-body and bone-marrow doses are for practical purposes confirmed by recalfulations employing the original data and corrected assumptions, and by those employing subsequent findings on additional field samplings. However, the independent assessment by the Brookhaven Natipnal Laboratory, based on whole-body counting for cesium and urinary] analysis for strontium, lowers the whole-body dose significantly. in my opinion, is the definitive one. This -Fstimate, Brookhaven's estimate of the transuranic dose (plutonium, Bmericium) has raised the question of the size of its contribution to dosef-a matter which is under discussion--but in any case, apparently not gre enough to prevent a decision from being made. This matter will be distussed. The question of infant dosage, neglected previously, has with specifically (or will be). Heen dealt