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An estimate of the potential tritium exposure can be obtained by comparing the tritium concentration in water

condensed from the cloud.

Reviewing the previous results from this standpoint, water from the

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(2) it would be very hard,

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for enough water to be removed during cloud passage

(unnaturally or naturally by rain, etc.) to amount to more than
several days drinking supply.

A similar statement can be made for

water from aerial samples; even those collected over GZ.

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water samples represents human drinking water supplies.

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that the actual exposures of the population to environmental levels of
tritium were considerably below the guides.
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