TABLE ITI
Factors for Converting Air Concentrations of Radioiodine
to Thyroid Dose via Consumption of Green Leafy Vegetables*

(mrem/yr per pCi/m3)
Age

1-129

[-130

I-13)

1-132

1-133

1-134

J-135

1 yr

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

4 yr

502

2.09

183

0.0443

7.43

0.00440

0.580

14 yr

720

1.33

129

0.0272

4.40

0.00267

0.351

Adult

1360**

1.40

143

0.0283

4.57

0.00280

0.366

*

Assuming:

1) All 12 months of vegetable consumption is from local gardens.
2) One-year old eats no fresh vegetables; 4-year old eats

32 kg/yr (max); 14-year old eats 54 kg/yr (max); and adult

eats 73 kg/yr (max).

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3) Crops are exposed 3 months, above ground, to air deposition.
4) 25% of all fallout sticks to vegetables with an ecological
"half-life of 14 days.
5) No decay from garden to table.
6) All radioiodine is inorganic.

multiply DF's by (Z/100).

If only Z% is inorganic, then

7) Ignoring long-term accumulation in soil, which for I-129
would add 1.3% in one year or 50% in 40 years.
kk

Dose in first year. Maximum dose rate after equilibrium is
reached between thyroid burden and intake rate would be 1.09
times this value.

Revised May 1976
J. K. Soldat

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