period,
tie standard deviation was in general 30% of the mean value for ail age
ind sex subgroup distributions.
the fact that
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This less pronounced variation may be due to
.
.
90
>on measurements took place over a three year interval while
Sr
and 1370, occurred over a 23 year interval and thus was contained in a more
homogeneous population than were the longer lived nuclides.
Figures 22 and 23a and 25b summarize the 905, dose equivalent results for
individuals at Rongelap.
In this analysis only the ingestion pathway was considered important.
Al-
though some radioactivity would enter the body via resuspension and direct inhalation pathways, it is known that the ratios of food and fluid intake to blood
relative to airborne intake to blood,
for the stable naturally occurring analogs
to the radionuclides considered here,
are as follows:
Co > 3000
Zn > 130
Fe
550
Sr > 10,000
Cs
400
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