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PREDICTED RADIATION DOSE IN REM WITH ADOPTION OF TASK
GROUP RECOMMENDATIONS

Maximum Annual Dose*

Whole Body
Child

Bone Marrow

Adult

0.125

0.128

Child

Aduit

0.148

0.149

Thirty Year Doses*
Whole Body

Bone **

2.2

11.5

Predicted Radiation Dose for Bikini Atoll

Thirty Year Doses***
Whole Body
5.3

Bone Marrow
9.4

Measured Terrestrial Gamma Dose += Rates in U.S.

0.04 to 0.13 Rem/yr
*See Option III, Table 11, of the Task Group report.

Dose includes >

contribution from natural background, about 0.03 Rem/yr, and 0.90

Rem/30 yrs.

**The dose to bone marrow is about one-third the dose to bone.
*** Presented in ''Additions to Radiological Report on Bikini Atoll,

P.F. Gustafson, Division of Biology and Medicine, '' May 1968.

Estimates do not include contribution from natural background.