Deaths in 30 years
=
164-160
Births in 30 years
= 1277-1300
For a population of 140 (the number that returned to Bikini):
‘eaths
‘n30‘fears),,
~ =+
Births in 30 years.,&=
‘
‘ =Q
.....
—
1;0 ‘ x
“ 40
= 32,,5.,
V300
. .4.
For a population of 235:
Deaths in 30 years,
164 _
~-
Births in 30 years, #
X
—
x = 70.07/~70
235 ‘
=
2:5 ‘
X = 545.62+550
For a population (of 350:
164 _
Deaths in 30 years, ~-
~
X
1277 _
Births in 3Clyears, —550 -—
, x = 104.36-100
X
350 ‘
X = 812.63,e 800
At the time the 13ikini book was prepared no agency in the U.S. government
had accepted the risk coefficients
in BEIR-111.
to use risk coefficients from BEIR-I.
Thus we were constrained
Nhile not included in the printed
book, risk estimates based on BEIR-111 were calculated for comparison
purposes.
The following gives the origin of the risk coefficients used.