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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Radiat Environ Biophys. 2022 Jun 29;61(3):445–464. doi: 10.1007/s00411-022-00979-1

Table 2.

Age-dependent behavior factor, BFk (unitless), for an individual from different age groups resided in settlements of different types

Type of settlement and year of exposure Newborn 1 year 5 year 10 year 15 year Adult
Rural settlement
Evacuated settlement 0.22 0.22 0.23 0.34 0.34 0.34
1986 0.19 0.19 0.21 0.28 0.28 0.28
1987+ 0.18 0.18 0.19 0.25 0.25 0.25
Semirural settlement
1986 0.15 0.15 0.17 0.21 0.21 0.21
1987+ 0.13 0.13 0.15 0.18 0.18 0.19
City
1986 0.11 0.11 0.13 0.15 0.15 0.13
1987+ 0.10 0.10 0.11 0.13 0.13 0.12