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agencies, but thus far [ have cusc.vered onl, cwo ceterences (6:3) giving
ome of these results.

Further data ar: tevded - especially for the yeaws

L35L, 1952, 1987 and 1355.
To allow tar cirferent time: of arrival.

I have atiusted atic concen-

trations to a common relerence time of 1 day, after wot nation assuming a
(time) 1*¢ variation in activity.

Unfortunately, reference

zive the time from burst tc assay for the Easy
92) shots.

Results are Listed in Table @.

(6) does not

(7 May 32) and Fox

(25 May

Tunes of explosion and kilotan

yields are from The Effects of Nuclear Weapons 1962 (9)

In some cases a mumber of air samples were taken scrially during a 24
hour period.

In such instances each adjusted air concentration was multi-

plied by the fraction of a day it was sampled.

Then these results were |

added to obtein the weighted average concentration for the entire 24 hour
period.
If one assumes 2 proportionality between beta activity in the air and

yi3t reaching man through the food chain it is possible to crudely estimate

thyroid exposures for those years for which air data are available.
are shown in Table 3.°

YEAR
OF

1952 ae

1953®
1985
1957
1958
1962

*St. George

Results

Table 3
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