Inhalation.
The ratio of volume of air respired by a 3- to 4-year-
;
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However, in the interviews none of them listed dried fish as having
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estimate.
oP)
Incidentally, LASL. assumed this mode of intake and calculated a dose
of 150 rad.? The thyroid weight used was not given, but was probably 20
grams. We would calculate 160 rad, in very good agreement with the LASL
3300 rad.
thyroid weight range of 1.9 to 3.1 grams, the range of total dose is 520 to
The most probable dose from Te ‘gs then 490 rad and the total dose
1270 rad. Considering a range in the thyroid burden (5.6 to 22.4 pCi) and a
were also 11.2 wCt of 19! (range 5.6 to 22.4 pCi).
and, therefore, had the same intake as adulta; i.e., their thyroid burdens
been eaten during the time before evacuation. /° Under these circumstances
it is reasonable to assume that children drank the same amount of water
racks.
village doctor reported that the "water turned yellow." As far as food ia
concerned, the most likely source is dried fish. Fish were dried on open
ports that it “rained a little’ on the afternoon of March 1 (D-Day). The
very likely that this was the main source of oral ingestion.
after the event, but most of them admitted they drank water anyway. ? The
method of collecting water by runoff from the roofs into cisterns makes it
2. Oral Ingestion. At the time of the event, the Rongelap people were
on a water ration of | pint per day. They were wacned not to drink water
.o
685
670
o
175:
1270
1445
200
3300
3500
Most
probable
Max
REFERENCES
The most probable dose is, therefore,
in the range 700 to 1400 rad,
The fiasion yields for p28 with high-energy neutrons
aa given by Weaver
Sharp and Chapman, “Exposure of Marshall Islander
s and American
Military Personnel to Fallout," WT-938 (1957).
10
Handbook of Biological Data, William B. Spector,
Ed., p. 352 (w. B.
Saunders, Philadetphia, 1956).
®pocumenta Geigy Scientific Tables, Sth Ed., p.
254 (S. Karger, Basel,
Switzerland, 1959).
9
Mochizviki, Mowafy, and Pasternack, Health Physics
, 9, 1299-1301
(1963).
Strom, and Kileen, NRDL-TR- 633, were used.
7
6
USNRDL-TR-86.
Ng, Yook, private communication (1964).
active Fallout Material,"
Radioactive Contamination of Human Beings
Accidentally Exposed to Radio-
Cohn, Rinehart, Gong, Robertson, Milne, Chapman,
and Bond, "Internal
Fallout Material and Determination of the Dose
of Radiation," Chapter I
of TID--5358, Some Effects of jonizing Radiati
on on Human Beings,
3 Harris, personal communication, cited
hy both References 3 and 4.
3cohn, Rinehart, Gong, Robertson, Milne, Bond,
and Cronkite, "Internal
Deposition of Radionuclides in Human Beings
and Animals," Chapter V of
TID-5358.
Isondhaus, Sharp, Bond, and Cronkite,
"Radiation Characteristics of the
intake.
The actual intake was undoubtedly a combination
of the two modes of
1550
350
Total
Qo
510
175
Most
probable
0a
6
“=~
6.8 wCi) and the variation in thyroid weight (1.9 to 3.1 grams), the dose is in
the range of 200 to 1350 rad.
200
1350
150
200
Radioiodine
Max
Whole-body
Min
Thyroid dose (rads) to Rongelap girdis ages
3 to 4.
Inhalation
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Oral Ingestion
SUMMARY
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The moat probable dose from 3! is then 150 rad and the dose from
all isotopes if 510 rad. If we consider the range of thyroid burden (1.7 to
Assuming the Rongelap children are similar to those of New York
children, the mass of the thyroid of the children is 2.5 + 0.6 grams. s
6.8 pCi,
burden of these children would then be about 3.4 wCi with a range of 1.7 to
maximum rate of oxygen intake” and (b) from the vital capacity® and maximum
respiration rate.’ Both methods give a ratio of about 0.3. The thyroid
old girl to that of en adult can be estifnated in two ways; (a) from the
1.
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