BOR ee

Table 41
Mean Cesium-$37 Levels Obtained by Whole-RBady Counting, 1974
Male
ni
Hikiné

nCi/ky body wt,

128

Vuirik

Rongelap

nCi/kp buady wa.

1.04 (0.45-3.11)

Wo

‘

BNL toed. teas

Feenule

:

4.05 (2.64-6.84)

475

7.76 (137-16.3)

2.93

£145 (0,22-3,20)

.

2.3 (0.9G-3.05)

5.93 (2.71-b3.46)

0.0592 (O.0154-40,0791 )
Table 42

Dause ta Bone Marrow (Data in nead/vear)
1938

Wal

Rongelap

Roagelap

Utirik

Internal
WS
137,
Natural (*°R,etc.)
Total
External
Residual yanma (in village areas)
Natural (cosmic etc, }

:

Total

304

Combined total

559

7
49

65
x»

46

iol

127

tr)

*1N7Cg 4 OZ,
**tbigh value due to increased custnic-raydase from above-average sunspot activity. The yeur 1958 was the time of peak

1954

To

ols
e4Zn

‘
‘

Wun Kongelap
\
le
‘

‘

Utirik ,

'

i

1

1963
1961

oe—

Lt

Medical warn

$967

1945

!

Bikini ,

Lo

7h

wre

1969

Figure 56. Body burdens of gamina emitters, obtained by
whole-body gamma spectroscopy (0, 37Cs; @, Zn),

1054

Mikisia

F
x
R

i

*~

T

peuple

1959
1937

q

*s, Gs Rongelap

eee
*
Return to Rougelap
4
bg i ee ee ee eee

a

Return ts Rongelap

r ae

radioactivity at Rongelap.

r

i

1954
1957

L

1d
1961

1907
190d

i
lu

l

7s

Ulirik ©
4

1974

Figure 37. Body burdens of strontium-0, obtained
by radiochemical analysis of urine.

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