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FALLOUT FROM NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTS
20 fold for strontiua°, zinc® was readily detected in samples froa the March
1958 medical survey.
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The estimated mean body burden at equilibrius for cesium??? 16 about 1.5
microcuries or about 1/6 of the tolerance recammonded by the International
Commission for Radiological Protection for non-industrial populations.
For
stroutiua? the mean body burden of the exposed Rongelap group in March 1958 vas
estinated to be tvo millimicrocuries.
This is about nine percent of the expected
equilipriun value of 23 millimtcrocuries.
ts about 1/5 of tolerance.
The equilibrated strontium”? burden
The estimated mean body burden of zine? for
“Rongelay 3 dects fn March 1958 48 about 85 percent of the equilibration value
of 0.6 wicrocuries and the equilibration value is 1/70 of tolerance.
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