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This,
we are intorested in aiso.
Dr. Pearce
yesterday gavs
you sond indication cf some of the moasuronents which are
in the onvirons of tho Fanford Works.
catching fish and cating fish,
mace
We havo peovle who are
We want to be sure that the fish
they do catch and cat aro not cspecicily contaminated, and Ww
want to avoid any possible hazard to man.
Also, concsivably, we misht think of another hazard
there,
If the vivor Plankton concentrated the radioactivity
otherwise, but if you think ebout the problem for a moment,
you have to realize if you start out with a given activity ina
quart of water, cven thorsh you are pickings up tho organisrs,
you ave not going to have any more activity in this quart of
vater than you started with.
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Our program, as far as the aquatic biolozy is concerned
-- one is plant control, to measure the an unts of radioactivity
present in these various forms and relate that perhaps to a
human hazard and also the hazard of the organisms themselves.
While we are doing this, sampling many srecies over certain
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pericds, it also gives us an opportunity to pull out a good deal
of the ecological relationshins which are involved. In other
aa
words, this essentially is a long, large-scale laboratory tyre
ef function,
Cur area includes not tke entire Colunbia River watershe: