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Office Memorandum * UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
To
: Dr. John C. Bugher, M.D., Director
FROM
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DATE: yay 20, 195)
Division of Biology and Medicine
Gordon M. Dunning, Health Physicist AMYar
Biophysics Branch, Division of Biology and Medicine
SUBJECT:
SUGGESTED ANS:‘TERS TO QUESTIONS RAISED BY STATE DEPARTMENT
SYMBOL:
BLBP:GMD
104566
Below are my suggestions that might be used as a basis for answering
the questions raised by the State Department re consequences of the
tests at the Facific Proving Ground.
Question 2,
"Does the Administering Authority feel satisfied that
there will be no long-run effects on the inhabitants,
destructive devices?"
sver.
It is expected that there will be no deleterious, long-run
effects on the physical well-being of the native inhabitants.
This is based on good estimates of external radiation doses
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either physical or psychological, from these enormously
as well as on the body burden of the ingested and/or inhaled
fission. products.*
I am not qualified to speak of psychological effects, except
to point out that tivo points may be made:
‘(a)
(b)
‘the natives were apparently satisfied with their
treatment and living conditions at Kwajalein and .
with the announced plens to restock their islands.
Possibly their greatest uncertainty is (in their
minds) the uncertainty of return to their home
islands despite reassurances,
*For your inforration I have made the following estimates based on
urinalysis reports from LASL.
Radioisotope
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Balko
RutO3
2
:. 73
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3
Percentage of Maximum Permissible Body
-
Burden Present at Time of Sampling
1
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4
L0%
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tis to be renerbered that the body burden measured was at the
time of urine collection and with the possible exception of Pu,
will be significantly reduced in the ensuing months, while the
waximum permissible body burden is based on the concept that the
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