PREDICTED RADIATION DOSE IN REM WITH ADOPTION OF TALK
GROUP RECOMMENDATIONS
Maximum Annual Dose
Whole Body
Child
Bone Marrow
Adult
0.125
0.128
Child
Adult
0.148
0.149
Thirty Year Doses*
Whole Body
Bone **
2.2
11.5
Predicted Radiation Dose for Bikini Atoll
Thirty Year Doses **«
Whole Body
Bone Marrow
5.3
,
9.4
Measured Terrestrial Gamma Dose - Rates in U.S.
0.04 to 0.13 Rem/yr
“See Option III, Table 11, of the Task Group report.
Dose includes
contribution from naturai background, about 0.03 Rem/yr, and 0.90
Rem/30 yrs.
*xThe dose to bone marrow is about one-third the dose to bone.
=“Presented in ''Additions to Radiological Report on Bikini Atoll,
P. F. Gustafson, Division of Biology and Medicine,'' May 1968.
Estimates do not include contribution from natural background.
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