14.
United
Nations
Radiation.
Scientific
Ionizing
United Nations
Committee
on
the
Effects
and
biological
radiation:
Sources
Fry.
progress:
Publication Sales No.
of
Atomic
effects.
£.82.1X.8, 06300P, United
Nations, NY, 1982.
15.
16.
Kohn, H.
I., R.
J. M.
Medical
NEW ENG. J. MED. 310:504-511, 1984.
A precise estimate for the Marshall
cosmic radiation, 22 mr/y
(2, 14,
Radiation oncogenesis.
|
Islanders is 0.04 rem/y, based on
17); and internal
radiation due to
potassium-40, 18 mrem/y (14, Annex B, Table 17).
The cosmic level
is
low owing to
radiation
is
sea-level
altitude.
The external
about the same as in much of Florida,
level
The value of .04 rem is well
below the estimated world average of 0.2 rem (14).
17.
Gudiksen, P. H., T. Rs Crites, W. L. Robison.
for
future
Bikini
Atoll
inhabitants.
External dose estimates
Lawrence
Livermore
National
Laboratory, Livermore, CA, UCRL-51879, Rev. 1, March 1976.
18.
Federal
Radiation
Council, Washington,
D.C.
the development of radiation standards.
Radiation
Council.
Report
No.
1,
May
Background material
for
Staff report of the Federal
13,
1960.
Also
see
Federal
Register, May 18, 1960, p. 4402.
19.
,
Naidu, J. R., N. A. Greenhouse, G. Knight, E. C. Craighead.
Islands:
A study of diet and living patterns.
Laboratory,
Brookhaven, NY,
BNL 51313,
July 1980.
Marshall
Brookhaven National
This study is the
most extensive one and provides the best discussion of the problem.
It is based on 3 different types of communities and observations over
some
7
years:
It
demonstrates
the
influence
of
local
and
external
factors, and makes the important point that the amount of food used in
preparing the diet can be estimated with reasonable accuracy, but the
amount
eaten
coconuts
is
are used
less
and
cannot
be
estimated
primarily for drinking,
accurately.
Many
especially during work
in
the groves, and much if not all of the meat may be discarded.
20.
For
Enewetak
Atoll,
the
Defense
Nuclear
Agency
assumed
that
the
average daily use was 4 to 5 coconuts per individual, but noted that
there was little hard evidence for the estimate.
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