Results Of Cheinical Analysis’ 'H-Bomb_TestIn
£ Radioactive Dust Released’ Raises lnt’l Law
' The
Tokyo
University blood transfusions in emerHospital
announced Saturday gency doses, and applied an
Ethylene-Diaand a medithe radioactive dust which cine produced .by university
covered the Fukuryu Maru No. scholars to combat a’ decline
in the white corpuscules.
5 near Bikini.
The analysis was made under - The official name given to
rof. Kenjiro Kimura, dean of the ailment’ of the men is:
the Physics Department of “Acute Radiation Sickness” in:
order to differentiate from the’
Tokyo University,
“Atomic Bomb Sickness” which
Dr. Masao Tsuzuki, pro‘fes- Was given to the Victims of the
‘sor emeritus of Tokyo Univer- Hiroshima
and
Nagasaki
sity and authority on radio- bombings,
.
active disease gave the folDr. Tsuzuki said there were
‘lowing report at a press con- no heat and concussion effects
_ ference Saturday.
in the case of the fishermen.|
By Pierre Durel, AFP Staff Cor
WASHINGTON, Mar. 19.— Congressio.
The unexpected repercussions Atomic En
, caused by ‘the surface explosion American .
iof the first “H’ bomb appear ing taken <
‘to have raised a question of in- tionary m.
‘ternational law,
:
that they
Some experts have taken the the exten’
' position that a power may hold zone,
of
morning the results of the ointment
chemical analysis conducted of mine-Tetra-Acid
{
/any experiments it wishes on;
“the high seas after having?
taken the necessary precaution?
‘ary measures and warned all?
interested parties.
i This interpretation is based,
‘on the principle that a counVery “may _carry out ' naval
The main elements of the
maneuvers, for example, after
‘having warned the interested
| powers that on such”and such:
j dust are calcium carbonate.
here is no evidence that the
calcium is radioactive but
a date, such and’ such a zone-
there are fission producis at-
ed
t
as
of
Saturday
morning
are:
1. Zirconium
(ZR * 95),
which takes 65 days for its
| radioactivity
to
decrease
by
‘half.
2. A sister product, Niovium
“(NV 95) which takes 35 days
for decrease to half.
3. Tellrium
(TE
132),
which takes 77 hours, and a
_ by-product.
Iodine-132, which
_ decreases by half in 24 hours,
* Dr. Kimura who supervis‘ed the tcsts said that the
janalysis would continue to de{termine
i“more
lived
will broadcast Tuesday of the:
severe damage caused by the
“dust of Bikini’? to the 23
Japanese fisherrren in detail,:
Bureau
Satur-}
English for home and foreign!
consumption for 10 minutes!
Tuesday from 2.10 p.m,
Professor
Tsuzuki
Dr. Tsuzuki explained that
Emeritus _Masao!
of Tokyo University
iby identifying the radioactive
“material, it was possible to tell
which parts of the body wouid
who has been ergaged in the
elemenis
1 explosion caused far greater
radicactivity than in Hiroshima
be affected,
Some radioactive
medical treatment of the sufferers,
He warned, moreover, that
frequent experimental ‘explosions might threaten the Japa-
parts,
tect.
z
It was not known yet how"
these discoveries would af
the treatrnent of the stricken
fishermen,
The Ashermen have been?
]eiven
glucose
injections
scientifically
and Nagasaki,
the bones and other internal
_ Dr. Kimura said they were
/as a rule more difficult to de-
explained
in the record that the’ March
Were mcre dangerous, he said,
because they stayed longer in
:
Maru "No, 5 incident, N.H.K.‘
The program, which was re-.
corded
Saturday
afternoon,
, Will be sent in Japanese and:
Minerals as calcium, strontium
‘and barium, were also present,
and’
nese Who live on fish, pointing
out the possible spreading of
the
poisoning
world.
dust
over
the
The program is scheduled to
beam on 10 different frequenc-:
les each for Hawaii, Australia, |
the Philippines, India, European’
and North and South Amer-
ican countries,
The bureau ofscial said the
program has no “political ob-:
jectives” except to make a plain
of the damage as it”
report
Victi ms Improving /*/ li:is.
The condition of the two|
fishermen treated at the Tokyo
University Hospital of their
radioactivity
is
“improving”
but there had been a “sight
deterioration” in the white
corpuscles count, Prof, M.
/Tsuzuki said Saturday,
“Thig
Pruiee"
‘though
3s
Causing
Dr,
‘with
us
Tsuzuki
the
some
said}
passage
of
‘time chere has been some im‘provement in the Surface burns.
The blackened skin is peeling
.off in some places.”
Though there are no indi- }
cations yet of serious internal
damage, he said, “there is a
very
serious
proviem in
the
number of radioactive element.
that was present,”
4
noe
—
area, after which anyone’ who!
has
been
warned,
wandering
into the zohe, would do so at:
his own risk’ gnd peril,
: In the case of naval maneu-;
_vers carried out with classical}
“weapon, it was easy to de, fine the danger zone, The
To anpeal to the world’
tests of March
| about the unfortunate Fukuryu! ; thermonuclear
1 have proven that this is not.
International
He believed such rave earth
elements as Lanthanium and
Cesium, and Alkaline Earth
|
\
To World Nations
'On Bikini Daniage
day.
elements
‘were present,
NHK Set To Aneal
it Was announced by the N.HLK.
whether any of the
dangerous,”
longer-
radioactive
will be considered as a danger}
wm
Ne aee oe
tached to it.
The other elentents analyz-
-
ell
the case for tests involving
atomic or thermonuclear wea-
pons,
According to currently availa-
ble information, it appears that
the
Japanese
fishermen
who
were affected more orless seri-
ously by radioactive ash from
the explosion had been outside
of the theoretical forbidden
zone,
Republican
Represehtative
James Van Zandt of Pennsylvania, a member of the Joint
ved