OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY
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UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION
NUCIEAR DIVISION
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POST OFFICE BOX X
OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE 37830
December 30, 1976
Dr. W. J. Bair, Manager
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Environmental and Safety
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Battelle Boulevard
Richland, Wa shington 99352
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Dear Dr. Wait:
The following comments are on the letter to Jim Liverman from the
Transuranium Technical Group on the subject of possible Pu contamination of Bikinians.
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Item 1 of our proposed letter may be too general.
TI would
suggest the following sentence.
"Do the residents of Bikini
have body burdens of plutonium above those of other persons
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inhabiting atolls in the Pacific in approximately the same
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latitude as Bikini?"
Third paragraph, first sentence:
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be replaced with "could be.”
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collected during one or more of its quarterly visits to Bikini."
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Sixth paragraph, last sentence:
I suggest we say
". . .then in
vivo counting of all residents should be reconsidered.
However,
based upon our experience to date with Spanish subjects, it is
unlikely that the current technology would offer much hope of
quantifying Low chest burdens of plutonium under field conditions."
Seventh paragraph, second sentence:
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burden could be about 200 pCi 239, 240pPu.
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