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experiment we did. 1.8% of the Strontiuns is retained

dose of 131,000 d per s fed daily over 17 weeks, Plant
material grown on contaiminated soil which would give aa

average daily feeding of about 2700 d par s, that je p
dry material,

Cesium is the least important, ceriua is

negligible, rutheniua nay be important because this is a

actor when wo talk about thecheaistry of 4t may act as

cation or an anion, We Lave studied thefused naterial

trinity on this sort of a thing, experiment, and we have
fused material from Shapper 7 and fused naterial fron
and in each case all we can do is to put don nil uptake,
At least the instrusentation that we are working with
techniques that we have used on cur research work, as we

value, Now you may be interested in what kind ofactivith ig =
imediately available to @ plant on detonation. On this Lest

series out ehere we, along with cur fallout studies, we

trapped aninals, the native rodentsand shot the jackrabbite
that are in the field, We had good fortunein thet there|was

Upshot 2 went in the north easterly direction and was no

reconteninated during the period of our etay in thefield] Se
we did serial sanpling on it,

In addition we had saspled| -

that area in October '52 andNovenber...I mean Septexber Sle
You may be interested in some of the things we found on

that,

On the rabbits 4 day plus 8 4 plus 72, and 4 plus 32 dayd.*

The casium, lung, liver, leg muscle, and femurs .t
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