Figure 11 compiles the individual data calculated for 13?¢s for all
Rongelap residents and is referenced to June 1, 1957.

The individual maximum

"os daily activity ingestion rate was approximately 4 times the population
mean value.

The standard deviation observed for the adult activity ingestion

rate distribution was 41% of the mean value, 39% of the mean value for young
adults, 48% for adolescents, 38% for children, and 544 for infants.

Adolescents

and infants exhibited a broader distribution than adults, while children showed
a fractional variation in activity ingestion rate similar to that of adults.
Breast feeding versus coconut sap supplements would have contributed to the
greater variation observed in infants.

Adolescents and young adults were the

population subgroups which have been observed to move frequently between atolls.
This mobility would lead to greater variations in the daily activity ingestion
rates relative to those observed in the more stationary population subgroups.
Figure 12 also exhibited a wave pattern; however, a distinct difference between males and females was indicated.
etary rate constants

This difference arose from the use of di-

listed in Table 3 which were derived from urine data for

male and female residents at Rongelap Atoll.
equivalent rate,

Its major impact was on the dose

not on the total dose equivalent; and its effect was to cause

the dose equivalent rate for males to risg, and decline more rapidly than for
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females.

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Figures 13a and 13b summarize the individual data for
Rongelap residents and were referenced to June 1,

1957.

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Sr for all

A bimodal shape was

observed for the distributions which contained both sexes, thus reflecting the
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difference in the
indicated that

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Sr dietary rate constants.

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the observed difference between the male and female values

was not significant.

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Data from urine breaeeay anratys:S
for K,

A t-test was peformed between consecutive urine measure28

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