3/ Ft
Cs!37 in Food Samples Collected at Rongelap
Atoll, August 1958
Comparison with Maximum Permissible Intake
Maximum daily intake found for one person:
7x 107° yc
MPC in water =
1.5 x 10°93 puc/ml
Daily intake of water as fluids by standard man:
(Radiological Health Handbook).
(Handbook 52)
1.5 x 109 ml/day
Maximum permissible daily intake taken as
(1.5 x 1073 pe/ml) (1.5 x 103 ml/day) = 2.25 uc/day.
Maximum daily intake of Cs137 for one person is about three one
thousandth of the maximum permissible.
0.007 pc/da
2.25 uc/day
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6.0031
Average daily intake of Cs 137 for one person (average of 13
daily rations) was found to be:
3.9x10°3 pc
Average daily intake is less than two one thousandth of the
maximum permissible.
0.0039 pc/da
2.25 uc/day
90022 1b
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0.0017