TABLE ONE

RELATIVE DOSES TO GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT
FROM INGESTION OF FALLOUT MATERIAL

Time After Detonation
That Ingestion Occurs

lst Hour

ist Day

Limiting

Case *

Lower Large Intestine

1.0

1.0

1.0

Upper Large Intestine

1.3

0.72

0.49

Small Intestine

0.26

0.054

0.03

Stomach

0.86

0.063

0.03

*Based on assumption that there is no significant decrease in
activity during time of passage through gastrointestinal tract.

After a

week following a detonation the decrease in activity between the mid-

point of time in lower large intestine is within 20% of this condition.
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