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eals. An adult male was assumed to take in 3.4 x 10° Bq
Ingestion wit
I in order to correspond to urine data. The Rtakes of other
(93 wCi) of
I and these
jodines and telluriums were based on the relationship between
nuclides in Bikini Ash. Meal intake and thus activity intake was modified by
body weight for the other members of the population. This modification was
based on an exponential relationship between total element intake and body
weight which was derived by us from data tabulated in the ICRP Publication
Reference Man (ICRP74). Newborns from Rongelap Island were assumed to ingest
850 ml_of breast milk per day (ICRP74) for 3 days past detonation. A fraction
of 10”

per ml of adult female intake per unit volume of breast milk was

assumed to be the fraction of mother's intake of iodine transferred to
newborns (Ma81). Decay of the iodine between the time of intake for the
mother and the time of intake for the newborn was neglected. Radioiodine
excreted from the long-term clearance compartments of the mother's body was
considered insignificant relative to radioiodine cleared in the short term
(Ma81) e

ACTIVITY INTAKE BY INGESTION
WITH MEALS

Body
Weight

ke

Rongelap Adult Male
Rongelap Child

70
30

Utirik Adult Male

70

Sifo Adult Male
Sifo Child

70
30

Utirik Child

30

* Normalized to urine excretion result.

M Bq

1354
130
85
5.2

3.5
44
30

.

1347

1337

132]

44
30

78
52

20
14

_

10

3.7

0.74

3.7
2.9

0.37

29
19

21
14

4.4
3.0

0.74
0.48

4.8
3.2

0.89
0.59

_-

7.0

2.5

1317
3.4°
2.3
0.48

13274
20
14

Bim,
3.0
2.0
0.55

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