70
Table 41
Mean Cesium-137 Levels Obtained by Whole- Body Counting, 1974
Male
No.
Bikini
nCi
8
Utirik
128
9
Rongelap
BNL med. team
Female
262
22
4
aCi/kg body wr.
No.
1.84 (0.43-5.11)
13
7.76 (4.37-16.3)
0.0352 (0.0134-0.0791}
24
4.05 (2.64-6.84)
475
2.93
nCi
nCi/kg body wt.
73
13
1.15 (0.22-3.26)
133
2.13 (0.96-3.85)
304
5.13 (2.71-13.46)
Table 42
Dose to Bone Marrow (Data in mrad/year)
1958
1974
Rongelap
Rongelap
Utirik
Bikini
Internal
Sr
137s
Natural (4°K, etc.)
Toral
Lt
120*
44
8
60
44
6
31
44
3
16
44
175
112
81
65
15
39
7
39
65
39
External
Residual gamma(in village areas)
Natural (cosmicetc.)
250
134**
Total
Combined total
*137Cs +.65Zpn,
384
54
46
104
559
166
127
169
.
**High value due to increased cosmic-ray dose from above-average sunspot activity. The year 1958 was the time of peak
radioactivity at Rongelap.
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Figure 57. Body burdens of strondum-90, obtained
by radiochemical analysis of urine.