TABLE 6.
Ranges of Estimated Bone Marrow Doses and Uncertainties for each Liquidator Category
| Arithmetic mean bone marrow dose (mGy) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | Number of subjects |
Average | Minimum | Maximum | Average GSDa |
| Witnesses of the accident | 3 | 160 | 38 | 377 | 2.3 |
| Victims of the accident | 2 | 2880 | 2580 | 3170 | 3.4 |
| Early liquidators | 66 | 97 | 0.48 | 1010 | 2.0 |
| ChNPP personnel | 9 | 234 | 23 | 966 | 1.7 |
| Sent to assist the ChNPP staff | 1 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 1.9 |
| Staff of AC-605 | 5 | 110 | 1 | 295 | 2.0 |
| Staff of Kurchatov Institute | 2 | 129 | 15 | 242 | 2.7 |
| Military liquidators | 220 | 71 | 0.01 | 554 | 2.1 |
| CSOM to the 30-km zone | 181 | 30 | 0.000037 | 694 | 2.0 |
| Staff of Combinat | 4 | 16 | 3 | 45 | 1.7 |
| Mixed | 79 | 164 | 0.40 | 3260 | 1.7 |
| All | 572 | 87 | 0.000037 | 3260 | 2.0 |
a
Only the intrinsic uncertainty is considered. The average GSD shown for each category is the arithmetic mean of the GSDs of doses for subjects in that category.