dose via the terrestrial foodchain on
from Bikini Island from the diet with
Bikini Island is 23 rem for whole body
the exception of coconut, i.e., Eneu
and 37 rem for bone marrow compared to
diet plus Bikini Island coconut, gives
Eneu Island where the respective doses
a further reduction in bone marrow and
are 2,0 rem and 3.3 rem.
whole body dose of approximately 20%
The 50-yr
integral doses, of course, show a sim-
over removing Pandanus fruit and
ilar difference.
breadfruit only (see Table 31).
It is clear that the
How-
living pattern on Eneu Island is much
ever, comparing the Eneu only diet in
preferred to that on Bikini Island for
Table 28 and the Eneu diet plus coco-
reducing potential dose to returning
nut from Bikini Island in Table 31, it
populations,
is clear that inclusion of coconut from
The impact of removing Pandanus
Bikini Island increases significantly
fruit and breadfruit grown on Bikini
the bone marrow and whole body doses
Island from the diet can be seen in
relative to a diet totally derived from
Table 31.
Eneu Island.
The bone marrow doses are
For comparison, the 50-yr
reduced by nearly one-half (a 30-yr
bone marrow dose from a diet derived
dose of 18 rem and a 50-yr dose of
totally from Eneu is 4,7 rem, while the
20 rem), while whole body doses are
Eneu diet plus coconut from Bikini
reduced by approximately 40% (a 30-yr
leads to a dose of 21 rem.
dose of 14 rem and a 50-yr dose of
whole body doses from the two diets are
20 rem).
2.8 rem and 17 rem, respectively.
Removing all other items
The 50-yr
Dose Summary and Discussion
Tables 6 through 9 list the 10-,
dose contributes nearly 36% of the
30-, 50- and 70-yr integral doses for
bone marrow dose and 50% of the whole
each exposure pathway, plus the sum of
body dose.
all exposure pathway for each of the
water pathways, assuming that the
six living patterns.
drinking water on Eneu is from the
As an example,
The marine and drinking
_ground water system, each contribute
the 30-yr integral dose in Table 7
about 3% to the bone marrow dose and
will be examined.
For Pattern 1 (living on Eneu
Island and diet from Eneu Island),
1% or less-to the whole body.
the
There-
fore, in Pattern 1, 93% of the bone
terrestrial diet contributes 57% of
marrow dose and 98% of the whole body
the bone marrow dose and 48% of the
dose are contributed by two pathways,
whole body dose.
terrestrial and external.
The external gamma
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