Exposure of the American People to Iodine-131 from Nevada Nuclear-Bomb Tests Review of the National Cancer Institute Report and Public Health Implications (1999) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix C. Calculation of Collective Thyroid Dose to the U.S. Population from the Release of I-131 from the Nuclear Weapons Tests in Nevada
Appendix C. Calculation of Collective Thyroid Dose to the U.S. Population from the Release of I-131 from the Nuclear Weapons Tests in Nevada
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, a simple calculation is presented to estimate the collective dose to the thyroids of the U.S. population that occurred from the release of i3iI from the nuclear weapons tests carried out in Nevada during the 1950s and 1960s.
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A reasonable estimate is 150 MCi, which may be considered as a geometric mean with a geometric standard deviation of 1.25. The latter value is based upon an estimate for a closely related parameter and is given by Ng et al.
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The nominal rate of loss independent of radioactive decay corresponds is 0.05 day-i (Thompson 1965~. A somewhat arbitrary value of a geometric standard deviation of 1.5 is assigned to this value.
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G Additional calculations of radionuclide production following nuclear explosions and Pu isotopic ratios for Nevada Test Site Events.
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