Re: background vs man-made emmissions [sic, finally] - fallout

[RadiumProj@cs.com]

In a message dated 4/30/00 1:37:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, frantaj@aecl.ca 
writes:

<< The doses absorbed by the [Insert: Hiroshima/Nagasaki] bombing victims are 
estimated to have been in the
 range of a few hundred rem (depending on location, any shielding effects,
 etc. >>

My recollection is that the average whole body dose received by about 50,000 
members of the Life Span Study [LSS] cohort in Japan was slightly in excess 
of 27 rem. Just trying to keep the numbers correct.

Stewart Farber
email: radiumproj@cs.com
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