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

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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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