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The Tokyo Universily feam, anolysing the redioase
tive dust on the Fukuryu Maru, yesterday anhounced
that it had discovered fhe nresence of the deadly clement Strontium 90, renorts Yomiuri.
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The cght-may team of experis also discovered barinm and
ancther unidentified element in
addition to the four already announced on Saturday.
Radisactive strortium cHags to
blood-forming organs and de
stroys cells by beta rays. It normally takes about 25 years to lose
“half of its effects and about 100
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STRONTIUM SOUND| IN
j today to collect further eviidence
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\ in the light of their latest discov“|
,ery,
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Fore
Office Counsellor Fury
uchi
ho visittd Yalzu covet
:the weck-end said that the Gove
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tions for adequate measures -or
the Fukuryu Maru incident.
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_ He said the Government first?
would settle the question of;
-ersiy authority cn at omic dis-
compensatton in view of thel
needs of the shipowner and th
dizal cha
ange in the treatment of
the patients
Dr Tsulsuki said ke ard anoth- i
er scientist woald revisit Yaizu -
tien regarding Japan's deep seaj
fish'ng around the Mars. i; Is-}
lands would Be eonsideicd int
view of Us ertensiog of the*
danger zone,
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crew members. Later the ques.
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