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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1969

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1963

1961

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1967

1971

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1974

1969

Figure 57. Body burdens of strondum-90, obtained
by radiochemical analysis of urine.

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