There are a muber of additional research projects in parte of the country which deal with om or the cther of & special phases of the ascil problen, Row the work which b bean done by UCLA began with the study of the original Alanazorde detonation eite and concerned iteelf not only fet th the pick-up of mixed fission products in plants and enimels, bat Likewise with the fate of the appriciable mount of platchis which was residual in the fusion material of that site, — type of study which was developed there is now being & to areas of hich contamination around the Nevada site wit techniques which have grom, you might say, out of this ebrlier | i experience, The present tine finds quite a lot of exzhas upon the particle aise end cheracter of the material thatjig _ falling out within two hundred miles of @ test alte and with RE the way that material becomes incorporated in the amell eginals, — and in the soil as reflected in plants which subsequent may be crow under greenhouse coniitions from scil ¢: | am oo with this matertal, Soumat sinter, bo deticitaly& pend experinents have been conducted at Peltsville in # wackta Depertaent of Agricilture station, avi have revolved arousd the oe o3 8 effect on the pick-up ef various isotopes, tut pertionlert stron tius, of other constituents in the sails that has led te|the sort of thing which has been sontioned, the relationship af the by wy A replaceable calciws of the soil to the pick-up of strontium SS