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Table 10. (Continued)

Utrik community

Rongelap Island community

Birth Year

RBM

Thyroid

Stomach

Colon

RBM

Thyroid

Stomach

Colon

<1931
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958

2.3
2.3
2.3
2.3
2.3
2.3
2.3
2.8
2.8
2.8
2.8
2.8
2.5
2.5
2.5
2.5
2.5
2.3
2.3
2.3
2.3
2.3
2.9
2.9
1.8
0.017
0.024
0.015
0.019

740
740
740
740
740
740
740
870
870
870
870
870
900
900
900
900
900
1,300
1,300
1,300
1,300
1,300
1,800
1,800
470
6.4
7.2
6.1
3.3

16
16
16
16
16
16
16
18
18
18
18
18
18
18
18
18
18
21
21
21
21
21
31
31
3.7
0.068
0.081
0.073
0.029

180
180
180
180
180
180
180
200
200
200
200
200
230
230
230
230
230
260
260
260
260
260
380
380
32
1.0
1.1
1.1
0.19

25
25
25
25
25
25
25
30
30
30
30
30
27
27
27
27
27
25
25
25
25
25
31
31
16
0.032
0.046
0.029
0.039

7,600
7,600
7,600
7,600
7,600
7,600
7,600
9,700
9,700
9,700
9,700
9,700
10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
15,000
15,000
15,000
15,000
15,000
20,000
20,000
5,100
12
14
12
7.2

530
530
530
530
530
530
530
610
610
610
610
610
600
600
600
600
600
690
690
690
690
690
1,100
1,100
150
0.14
0.17
0.15
0.067

2,800
2,800
2,800
2,800
2,800
2,800
2,800
3,100
3,100
3,100
3,100
3,100
3,700
3,700
3,700
3,700
3,700
4,100
4,100
4,100
4,100
4,100
6,100
6,100
480
2.0
2.1
2.0
0.38

were derived from the same thyroid biokinetic model and
sets of parameter values used to derive the excretion
fractions.
Contribution of other radionuclides to the
internal doses
The 63 radionuclides that have been considered for

the estimation of the doses from acute intakes have been
selected among those that were systematically reported

by Hicks (1984) forall tests, while the five radionuclides

considered in the estimation of the doses from chronic
intakes are those that were measured in whole-body or
from bioassay measurements performed within a few
years after the Bravotest. In addition, there are several
radionuclides that deserve mention:

e ~*Pu and “Pu: The normalized deposition densities of
Pu and *°Pu for specific tests were not reported by
Hicks (1984) as that information is classified. How-

ever, ~°*~°Pu concentrations in the top layer of soil

(O—5 cm) were measuredin soil samples collected in
1978 by Robison et al. (1982) and in 1991-1993 by
Simon and Graham (Simon and Graham 1997; Simon

et al. 1999). In order to estimate the ~’'**°Pu deposition density at the time of fallout, it was assumedthat:

(1) all of the *’'**°Pu fallout occurred at the time of

large tests in 1954, (2) the deposited activity migrated
relatively rapidly downwards from thetop layerof soil
during the first year after deposition, then decreased
much more gradually with time as the activity became
fixed in the soil matrix, (3) the measurements included

the contribution from *’'°Pu in global fallout, esti-

mated as 0.24 Bq kg', and assumedto haveall been
deposited in 1962, and (4) the average density of the
top layer of coral-based soil was 1.0 g cm*. The

deposition density of *’*~°Pu from all Pacific tests,

assumed to have occurred in 1954, and the variation

with time after fallout of the concentration of **°*~°Pu
in the top level of soil (O—5 cm) are presented in Table
18 for all atolls and reef islands of the Marshall Islands
exceptthe test site atolls. Crude estimates of the doses

due to acute intakes were obtained using: (1) the

deposition densities presented in Table 18; (2) the
relationship of 0.031 Bq intake per Bg m* deposited

obtained for '°’Cs at Rongelap for the test Bravo, and

(3) the committed dose coefficients recommended by
ICRP (1996). The doses to bone marrow were much

greater than those for the other three organs and tissues
that we considered. The highest doses to RBM were

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