Table 1.
Nonfission
products
- continued
Per cent abundance at!
One One
One Ten
week month year years
2,
Radiation
3)
energy, Mev
Beta
Gamma
Min4
EC
Colt
EC
zn?
Bte.32 1.12
Fe?
Feo?
(for man)
84
290 days
.12*
270 days
EC
46"
none
1.1%
Btw 47
231
81
1.17*
5 days
Critical’
organ
liver
0.0013
liver
0.0072
2.6 years
4S days
65
65
"
"
blood
plood
71 days
5.2 years
8
8
i"
"
liver
liver
250 days
8
23.
"
=~"
mec???
pe /m1
bone
0.005
0.0001
0.0015
0.02
0.06
q¢
C038
co80
Half lire???)
Physical Biological
*
**
and others
Maximum permissible concentration in drinking water based on the assumption that water
consumption is 2200 ml per day and that water is the only source of radioisotopic contamiValues can be directly extrapolated to grams of food when compensation is made
nation.
for the difference between the daily intake of water and food
(1) Hunter and Ballou , 1951
(2) Strominger et al, 1958
(3) Kinsman, 1957
(4) NBS Handbook No. 52, 1953
(5) Lowman, 1957