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The next phase of this study is now underway -- May 1966.

Thy-

roid specialists are again examining those children originally thought
to have thyroid abnormalities.

I would assume the results will be

available in the near future.
There seems to be firm evidence that weapon-produced radioiodine
can produce physiological effects.

In the case of the Rongelap incident,

the thyroid damage was produced by the fallout from a single nuclear
explosion.

In Nevada, if indeed the thyroid abnormalities are found to

be attributable to radioiodine (and as I just mentioned, no such causal
link has been established), the fallout from a number of test detonations
may have contributed, and if the radioiodine should be implicated, there

seems little question that its route of entry was through fresh milk.
Drinking water supplies predominantly are from wells.
During the Atomic Energy Project of World WarII, large research.

programs in radiobiology were undertaken; and through the use of animal experiments, a great deal of knowledge has been generated on
various internally-deposited radionuclides.

But the basic source of

information on the bone seekers (and this includes strontium~-90) stems
from the early radium experience.
The animal experiments have shown that certain of the bone-seeking
nuclides produce greater damage to the bone than radium for the same

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