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Table 1. Average radionuclide purden and ume since rehabutanon for Ronegelap adults
RRM
OU, -
ia,
.p adults.
Time Post
Rehabitarion
Davs
(A
9.3x107-
iA}
7
30
1370
2833
1961
1965
52
1.9x103
2.3x104
t.6x104
2.3x104
3.5x30-
acB,
i
3c
32
3
LC
6.4x107
Laxic
169x204
3.ixite
iC
g
ie
a7
22
cc,
1. Bxj04
;.5x104
2.ixio4
3,4x10/
(c
26
42
59
3
5
244
304
639
1370
195?
1958
1958
1959
196}
2 Fe
1.6x104
26
1. 5xi04
cn
i.5x]0"
60
4626
1970
90s,
7.0x10°
i. 7xi0!
(Aj
i
5.2x100
beix id!
(A)
.
6.3x108
t.4xi¢]
(A)
15
0
304
1957
1958
eA ie Mae et te
|
re
ao
&.ixtol
1S
2.4x102
Li
12
2.0x10¢
1.6x102
7
12
2.1x102
1.3x102
9
1.5102
1}
b.ixloe
5
&.7xic i
i
11
8
9,.6x1i01
3.2x102
i.3x102
2.5x10°
3.7x10!
4
ve
2b
25
5.2x10°
2.9104
2.9%204
2.5x10-
1.9104
13
1}
13
12x90
7
(a)
ar
38
‘
a 2x10"
2 3x1 02
2.ixid?
8.5x10)
iC,
2.8x10!
?
40
13
2
1.3x102
i
5022
1971
5753
4i'g
7574
8057
1973
1974
1978
i979
9
1957
539
1959
9.5x101
20
12
CA:
1.5xio%
ag
2.1x104
96
6.4xi01
4.1x10!
3
3
3,8x10(Ci
1964
1967
1927
4292
&.1x102
2.7x104
5:
2100
4657
5388
304
1963
196B
1969
1970
1972
1953
18
30
2.5x104
2.5x104
1.4x104
3.3x103
6.3x103
6.7x107
7
a9
46
51
1470
2831
6118
7213
196}
1965
1974
1977
8
(C3
3.2x102
(Cc)
il
(Cc)
5753
7030
1973
1976
3?
66
gos?
88:3
1979
198:
URINE (4tl 4
fi
5.5x167.0xi07
2466
4561
22
26
(a:
v
45
2h
21
1961
1962
1.3x102
1.5x102
18
26
3.1107
1.7x104
1.8x104
1.1x104
7.0x103
1959
1696
25
(Cc
1g
13
639
1370
1957
1.9x102
13
16
(c
ay
37
ba
22
30
19
36
5.:x10!
2.5x102
1.5x102
(Co:
3.3x10!
Loxton
7
u
3.5x104
3.5x104%
1.8x104
i. lx104
6.7x103
6.7x102
239 py
16
1.8x10+
1.5x102
1.6x102
1.4x102
137¢e
2.9x15)
12
5.5x101
3. 3xi0B.1xl0-
3
2. 1x102
2.1x%102
7.7x101
u
as
24
9
3.0x102
2.¢x10Peaxi te
0
Year
6. 3x107-
37
ws
6.3x10!
peed
Adults (>15a*
Body
Number
Burden
of
Be
individuals
(ar
3.7x10+
9.3x104
4.7x101
frvily £aelhE TION RATE
Aduic Females (>I5a_
Body
Number
Burden
of
Be
Individuals
1.1x108
BOTs
fe
1
a
~t
Ww
1
Adult Males (>15a
Body
Number
Burden
of
Bq
individua is
A = Mamber of individuals not recorded.
B = Measured at Argonne National Laboratory.
C = No females measured.
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ale for
vigtnteefa~j 4.
methods used to derive “Fe body burdens from
blood measurements were given in Be72.
The most recent whole-body counting data
available (1981) are presented in Table 3. Anal-
ysis of the data indicated that °’Cs adult average body burdens at Rongelap and Utink were
from 40 to 90 times greater than those of a
comparison population at Majuro, a southern
atoll which received little fallout from testing
(Le80c). The “K levels and corresponding potassium content were in close agreement with
naturally-occurring values developed from data
in ICRP Publication 23 (ICRP74).
Due to the paucity of early activity mea-
surements in Utirik residents (see Table 2), their
©Co, ™°Pu and “Fe body burdens were estimated by comparing nuclide ratios for Utirik
and Rongelap residents. The measured body