MasCHELLs Fas there any finel assay of the soil after you got throlgh “, harvesting the cropat LARSEN s Yos, we feel that quite significant quantities sppeared, don't have the figures with me right now, I po BETHEtr The 196 microouries were distributed over how? LARSEN: Four square fect, MITCHELL? How Go you account for such a large drop from the first to the last one if the radioactivity in the sail is ‘ Well, by decay curves and energy curves, the only thing 40h we have been able to pick up here is Strontium 69. It been a selective absorption, fff apparently. Wowwe in other crop datg that we have done where wehavetaken agricultural eolid fron throughout california‘and New : | ASE re APPEeae agths and contaminated at the rete of 100 disintegrations per per grm of soil, there are 1600 grens to a plot. t can|give ten LARSEN: aby a you sows idea of shat happens heres. On theStrontion if |re ay take the soil to the plant and we alse try to cover this with the animal feeding, there are 100 disintegrations | initially per gran. The plan in the leaf materiel which|the bean was the rost inportent, the barley was the least ingortamt and had 1,20 disintegrations per second per gram of p material and if this plant were fed to this enixal cur experinents have netted 250 d per s retained this vould of a. dose fed. In other words, I got these figures from anc -a~ -art of Energy ‘ Bea” Mfgian ees Tce