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Wachholz:

Ted Mitchell’s

people will be in on the evaluation

dose assessnmt

Bair:

of the next LLL

draft.

We should make a list of the immediate and long term issues we need
to discuss this afternoon.

Robison:

Offers to give a summary of the present data status:
Status of Present Data
1.

External Doses
The data base is essentially

in.

This consists of EG&G 50 meter

grid IMP data for Enjebi and all northern islands except Pearl.
2.

Ingestion Doses
These doses are developed from concentration
in fruit vers~s the weighted
of sampled plants.

ratio data:

pCi/g

soil profile data in the root zone

A separate

ratio is obtained

for each

sampled tree and the average of the ratios is used as the average
concentration

ratio.

The 100 meter grid soil data have been

used thus far for estimating

average island soil concentrations.

The more detailed 50 meter grid data can be used.
average concentrations

from the 100 meter grid are multiplied

by the average concentration
plant concentration.

ratio to get the estimated

average

More data on veg/soil ratios will be

available in the future.
3.

The island

Soil data appear to be lognormal.

Inhalation
Of the total observed mass loading (56 pg/m3), about 34 pg/m3
is

due to sea-salt spray.

origin.

Hence, 22 pg/m3 is due to terrestrial

We assume 19 hrs/day of normal activity conditions and

5 hr/day of high activity conditions.

We use the ICRP model.

We have a reasonable good hold on doses from inhalation.
are extremely

low.

For estimating

They

doses from Pu in the lung

model, we use the average Pu/Am ratio for each island and
multiply this by the island average Am obtained from the IMP
data on a 50 meter grid.

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