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SU\I?~lA~y
Extensive
contours
fission
modification
of Castle
been converted
atolls
by
time-integrated
and
the calculations
debris
agree
have
dose to the inhabitants
for gross
contours
For
and total
atolls
prodl]ced
have
from the
instantaneous
calculated.
Interviews
with
of the affected
natives
indicate
that many people ate fresh seafood
of their
Utiri!{ ate and drank
the dry deposition
the previous
islands.
greater
than
in those
resulted
in development
of
Rongelap
the
and
nearest
dose estimates
the agreement
is not as
food and water,
areas
indicated
of thyroid
rain
nodules
and
Ailinginae
likely
less than at atolls
producing
did not occur.
in those
evidence
it seems
that rain probably
in wet deposition,
where
ViUage
is no direct
from Bravo was considerably
section
atolls have not been made
and drank water from cisterns
Although there
contaminated
This would result
contaminated
been
At the more distant
report.
o f fallout.
these
both
well with the measurements
ii? this
However,
has
the need for more “tuning” of the code input parameters.
The internal
since
suite
deposition
factors,
Ln addition,
cloud.
concentrations
measurements.
good, indicating
contamination
code
time-integrated
the use of dose conversion
the
surface
based on these
MATH EW-ADPIC
to dose rates and total doses up to the time of evacuation
affected
atolls,
the
Bravo accumulated
Through
products.
of
.AN~ CONCLUSIONS
occurred
[8]
following
that
those at
that
they did
to the west.
during ths time
local doses 10 to 50 times
This effect
Utirik residents
could
have
who consumed
food and water.
REFERENCES
1.
of Local Fallout Data from Test
Hawthorne,
Howard A., Ed., “Compilation
Detonations
1945-1962 Extracted
from D.4SA 1251,” Vol. IT - Oceanic Il. S.
Tests, DNA 12~1-2-EX, D.L4SIAC,Santa Barfi?.ra, C4 93102, May 1979.
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