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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