m-—— it may be stated that U. S. residents have, on the average,
been receiving from fallout over the past five years a dose which, if
weapons testing were continued at the same rate, is estimated to produce
a total 30-year dose of about one-tenth of a roentgen} and since the

accuracy involved is probably not better than a factor of five, one
could better say that the 30-year dose from weapons testing if maintained
at the past level would probably be larger than 0.02 roentgens and
smaller than 0.50 roentgens.——
"The rate of fallout over the past years has not been
uniform.

If weapons testing were, in the future, continued at the

largest rate which has so far occurred (in 1953 and 1955) then the
30-year fallout dose would be about twice that stated above.——"
Gamma radiation exposures near the Nevada Test Site are
generally higher than the average for the United States.

The map on

page _____ shows the estimated gamma exposures accumulated from all tests
at the Nevada Test Site.

Table 10 lists all of the commnities that

have received sufficient fallout to result in an estimated 0.2 roentgens
or more to the inhabitants.

In addition to this list, the highest fall-

cut level noted to date in an inhabited place around the Nevada Test

Site occurred in 1953 at a motor court near Bunkerville, Nevada, where
about 15 people might have accumulated 7 to 8 roentgens if they had
continued to live there indefinitely.
The National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council
Report recommended : 26
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