Table

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Population Breakdown by Age and Geographical Living Patterns
(Ref. 6)
Infants and

small children

Children and

adolescents

Age Bracket (years)

0-4

5-19

Fraction of population (7%)

16

Inside Home
Within 10 m of home

Men

Wofen

20+

hoe

41

22

f

50

30

30

30

L5

10

5

LO

Elsewhere in village

5

10

5

LO

Beach

5

5

5

15

15

20

L5

Fraccion of time spenc in
respective areas (%):

i

Interior of island
Lagoon
Other Islands

0

10

10

1 5

20

20

25

25

Table 17

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Assumed Exposure Rate for
Each Living Pattern*

Patcern

Rongelap Atoll
wR/hr

Inside home

7.3

Elsewhere in village

7.3

Interior island

7.3

Lagoon**

3.7

Wichin 10 m of home

7.3

Beach

:

73

Other Islands***

24.9

“Values Listed are mean exposure rates.
ik
Lagoon value is assumed co be the same as regional background ac unco itaminacted
enegtolls.

“Values used for other islands assumed equal distribution of time spe pe
other islands within the atoll.

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