September 10, 1982

410071

CALCULATION OF POTENTIAL RADIATION CAUSED HEALTH EFFECTS
FOR PERSONS LIVING IN TRE NORTHERN MARSHALL ISLANDS
Potential health effects for persons living in the northern
Marshall Islands are calculated using the same assumptions and same
methods used for the Bikini population (copy attached). Risk
coefficient from both BEIR I and BEIR III were used providing not only a
range of estimates but also a comparison of the most conservative
(linear, relative risk model) with what would be described by many

ede}. biologists as the most probable (linear-quadratic, absolute
model).

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