VoIces

“Any assay?

VOICE:

There's never been an assay of sr’? of any sort.

EISENBUD:

We have started sr99 determination on a large assortaent

of fallout materials.

I have no data now.

The stron~

tiua's been separated and we're waiting for the yttrius

to growin.

The only sp90 that we have is on those

bones that I told you about.
YOICEs

What is the gr70 yield from therzonuclear weapons?

LIBSYs

Well 1 don't know exactly, it's probably high.
ordinary fission.

5% in

There is, of course, a question of

the type of weapon yield, but I think in all these things
we certainly get a lot of it.

Now tomorrow we'll have a

more thorongh go around on this subject, and I hope that

one of the medical dectors will speak to us a few minutes
about thereasons for strontium being such an important

isotope.

We're not particularly competent in this field,

but I think we're all curious.
TOLL! Re

Would this be the right time as - while you say that
strontium is the sain isctope — to ask whether sonething
like plutoniu, an alpha enitter, aight similarly be
important as a bone seeker?

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