Table 34.
Thirty-yr integral dose comparisons of living patterns for Bikini
and Enewetak Atolls.@
Living patterns and location
Bikini pattern 1 — Eneu Island
Bikini pattern 6 — Bikini Island
Whole
body,
rem
Bone
marrow,
rem
Federal guidelines for
population average WB
and bone marrow, rem
4.2
5.8
5
28
Enewetak pattern 3° Engebi Island
9.1
Enewetak pattern 1° — Southern
Islands
United States background radiation4
42
5
13
5
0.22
0.43
5
3.0
3.0
5
“Natural background has been subtracted from the Enewetak and
Bikini living patterns.
Oye = whole body,
“See Enewetak Radiological Survey, Vol. 1 (1973).
Based upon an annual external background dose of 100 mrem/yr at sea level.
primarily because key food products
of 4.2 rem and bone marrow dose of
will be available much sooner and the
5.8 rem for Eneu are approximately
external gamma doses are higher.
one-half those predicted for Engebi
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The doses predicted for the primary
Island at Enewetak Atoll.
However the
living patterns at the two atolls are
Eneu doses are about five times higher
listed in Table 34.
than the southern island living pat-
The highest pre-
dicted doses occur for the living pat-
terns at Enewetak, which lead to the
tern involving Bikini Island, Pat~
lowest predicted doses of all living
tern 6, at Bikini Atoll.
patterns at either atoll (whole body,
The integral
30-yr whole body and bone marrow doses
1.0 rem;
are 28 and 42 rem, respectively.
in fact lower than U.S. doses,
The
predicted doses are approximately 2.5
bone marrow,
1.2 rem)
and are
Bone doses in the Enewetak Radio-
times higher than those predicted for
logical Survey~ were calculated for
Engebi Island at Enewetak Atoll (whole
mineral bone.
body, 11 rem; bone marrow, 16 rem),
doses were compared to the Federal
which is the living pattern leading to
guideline of 3 rem/yr for a member of
the second highest predicted doses at.
the population.
the atolls.
report, and in the AEC Task group
Eneu Island, Pattern l,
These mineral bone
The doses in this
at Bikini Atoll ranks third in the
Report?” for Enewetak Atoll were cal-
jist of four major living patterns at
culated for bone marrow and are com-
the two atells.
pared to the Federal guideline of
The whole body dose
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