Table §

Total Body Equilibrium
Dose Equivalent Rate per
Unit Total Body Burden,

x
_

_

mRem yl ucia!

55K
26

2 x 10°

600,

6 x 10°

6575

1 x 107

90c,

3x 10°

1376,
55

2x 107

27

30

38

maximum of approximately several hundred millirem per year persisted for several
hundred da‘s.
component.

The majority of the dose rate is attributable to the 1370,

Cesium dominated over the entire post return period and would be of

prime concern for populations returning to a contaminated environment years
after a fission-type initiating event.
Figure 16 illustrates two possibilities for the Utirik body burden history
during the first three years post return.

The higher body burden resulted from

use of the two measured 6520 body burden means for adults on Utirik and the
observed dietary rate constant from Rongelap.

[It was observed on Rongelap that

-031% of © en was removed from the diet pathway each day in addition to
radioaccive decay.

Additionally, reduction in dietary radioactivity on Rongelap

had been cbserved for

137, 8; 90 Sr and 6065 to be greater than that predicted by

radioactive decay alone.

Instantaneous reduction fractions very similar to

1?

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