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

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