Table 11.
detail and for data on the chemical
Analysis of cistern
water sampled on 21]
June 1975 on Bikini
Island (Bikini Atoll).
quality, the original report should be
consulted.
The data from the cistern water in
Bikini Island are given in Table il.
Bldg.
Ground water data from Bikini and Eneu
are listed in Table 12.
5
It is assumed
90...
2.5(1) 1.1€11)
239,240, |
7.9 x 1077(5)
1.8(2) 1.9(2) 13.7 * 1077(4)
24
School 1.7(2) 1:42(7) 29.0.* 1072(2)
Mean 2.0
1.47
1.69 x 107
“in the alternate living patterns that
"only the cistern water will be used
for consumption.
Radionuclides (pCi/1l)*
1376,
Therefore, the dose
“the values in.parentheses are the l-o
counting errors expressed as percentage
of the listed values.
assessment via this pathway was based
upon the average values listed in
The ground water data are
Table 11.
presented for comparison in the event
ground water were used as potable
resulting from consumption of cistern
water. —
water.
.
The 10~, 30-, 50-, and-70-yr inte-
The estimates based upon con-
sumption of Eneu ground water (Table
gral doses resulting from the consump-
15) also exceed those based upon con-
tion of Bikini cistern water are listed
sumption of cistern water; the 30-,
in Table 13 and are of the order of a
50-, and 70-yr integral doses range
few millirem for whole body and bone
from 0.2 to 0.4 rem for bone marrow
marrow.
and 0.03 to 0.05 rem for whole body.
These are the doses used in
the subsequent dose summary tables.
All doses were based upon an intake of
The whole body and liver dose is con-
water of 2 l/da.
tributed almost entirely by og,
Strontium-90 and cesium-137 are
MARINE FOOD
CHAIN
approximately two orders of magnitude
higher than 239,240), in contributing
to bone marrow dose.
Tables 14 and 15
No marine samples were collected
during the June 1975 survey.
This was
compare the doses based upon the con-
the result of both limited manpower
sumptions of Bikini and Eneu ground
and time and the fact that the marine
water.
pathway contributed much less to the
The 30-, 50-, and 70O-yr doses
resulting from consumption of Bikini
gamma radiation dose than the terres-
ground water range from 1 to 2 rem for
trial and external gamma pathways at
bone marrow and 0.4 to 0.7 rem for
Enewetak. >
whole body.
of view, we expected both atolls to be
This is a very signifi-
cant increase over the estimates
very similar.
-~21-
anna
500997
From this relative point