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TABLE ONE
RELATIVE RADIATION DOSES TO GASTROINTESTINAL
TRACT, FROM INGESTING INSOLUBLE RADLOACTIVE
FALLOUT
Time After Detonation
Intake Occurs
Limiting
Case *
1st Hour
ist Day
Stomach
14
0.086
0.03
‘Small Intestine
0.39
0.068
0.03
Upper Large Intestine
1.7
0.81
0.49
Lower Large Intestine |
1.0
1.0
1.0
*Based on assumption that there is no significant decrease in
activity during time of passage through gastrointestinal tract.
After a
week following a detonation the decrease in activity between the midpoint
of time in stomach to midpoint of time in lower large intestine is within
20% of this condition.
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