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INTERNAL DEPOSITION OF RADIONUCLIDES
TOTAL vourne! Reta ACTIVITY
Case No.
| 24 HRS (mL)
P/s/24 Tas
——o—
Table 5.3.—Gross Beta Activiry in Urine of Rongelap People on 46th Day Post Detonation
LO
Age < 5 yrs
)
|
12U
71200
OE
4
5
23
155
40
313
22300
9
10
455
301
*
yO5
404
t
150
33
54
894
260
sO
69
—~—~~—.
Mean
:
1;
=
/
11
13
450
340
1, 583
1, 677
"
18
265
47
'
39
67
|
|
|
280
650
«|
450
72
75
»
»
986}
Mean
.
439
76
110}
440
|
355
980
14
|
22
{
201
549
780
" 2, 460
47
77
455
1, 670
;
30
i
37
40
550
1, 450
i
|
49
52
55
425
780
320
0
0
1, 080
\
57
550
60
810
|
ij
/
550
;
650°
1
235
(140
634
0
fi
385
Age 6-15 vrs
20
455
1, 700
———
24
26
35
36
7
D/W24 RY
§10
i
_
|
24 WES (HL)
7
H
—
t
Toral. Voitse! Bera Activity
Age > lyre
2
3
j
Case No.
34
Oo
&
3,032
+
a
5
23600
62
63
66
6S
arog
7
1900
1,100
i;
674
a
so;
0
&
ISO
758
79
sO
S2
Mean
792
330
:
71
7
570
480
56
58
435
750
46
.
96U
3, 220)
750
2,170
980
635
|
855
300
=:
1,985
2, 260
TIS
«62,010
290
i
495
706
230
1, 095
'
|
5
5£0
41,4507
0
52°
;
b=
465
530
$
|
2,038
1,383
(
S81;
4, 208
i
.
GU
140
Values carrected for decay.
So correlation was found between body
weight of the people from Rongelap and the
total activity per 24 honrs excreted in iheir
urine,
.
Gross, beta activity measurements were also
made on the samples sent to NYOO, AEC.*
Their results essentially corroborate the find*Personal conmmanication from lor. 7. Warles, NYOQ,
AEC.
9002716
.
‘
7
ings by the CSNRDL, partiénlarly the ratio
of the activities among the three groups seudied.
The abselute values of the activity determined
by NYOO-AEC, however, were lower than ~
the USNRDL values by a constant factor.
2, Radiochemical Analysis of the Urine:
Estimate of Body Burden. Radiochemical
analysis of the Ronvelap urine samples indicated that the alkaline earth and rare earth
evoups together contributed 75 percent of the