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Prof.y“I'suzuki commented,
The
“Bikini Death Dust”
The concmnent is studying my yy
contained the dang-rous ele- however, that due to the ex.
ments Strontium-90 2 ad Barium tremely small amount of dust.! the legality of a recent unilater- To F
Which have perctrated the bone available for study it could not.

marrow and upset the blood ;be said that these elements were
supply system of the two hos- ‘not present because they could

Pitalized fishermen it was an- not be detected.

The results of the chemical
lysis so far show that there
‘ttle difference besides the
Prof, Masao Tsuzuki told the
presence
of iodine,’ with the
press Monday morning that
nounced by Tokyo University
Hospital Monday,

small quantities of the feared snate tial

used

in

the

atom

al American notice on the ex-

Pansion of the danger zone in
connection . With the test of’

American

nuclear

weapons,

Deputy Prime Minister Taket- a.
ora Ogata told the House of ,, ase ve

Councillors budget committee laying

Monday,
nese h
Leftist Socialist Tokuji Ka- structic

Strontium-90 and Barium 140 bcembs_ dropped on Hiroshima meda asked if the Government Museu:r
discovered through the chemical and* Nagasaki ‘in 1945,
Neither zine nor silver known received an American notice on in earl,
analysis of the dust, besides the
March 19 that the United States Japa:
be atomic fission products
other elements alreedy ‘ an- to
could be detected in the dust is expanding the denger zone were b
nounced Saturday,
at Bikini atomic test ground for this
Those Were
Zirecnium-95, so far, Prof. Tsuzuki said,
iby several times.
building
Further
experimerts
were
Niovium-95,
Todine1$2, and
Agriculture Minister Shigeru 2"
house,
ecnducted at Tokyo University 1
Tel Itium-132,
Hori in reply confiumed theby scientists with the dust aud
It takes 25 years for the
» receipt of the notice, adding.
white mice,
radioactivity of S‘rontium-90
that
he had taken proper steps
An autopsy 12 hours efter
to decrease by half, he said.
for the dissemination of theThe radioactivity on the skin letting the white mice ingest information to quarters conof the two interned fishermen the dust showed that the organs cerned,
*
is
appearing, Prof. Tsuzuki. were affected in the following Kameda wanted to know if
rder:
I
announced, but the radioactive
r ays have pereiretad the bloodBone marrow, kidney, liver, }i,, Hori’s answer meant that Japan
recognized such unilateral steps
fo.ming bone rrarrow,
muscles,
,.. taken by the United States,
There Was no radicaciuvity
It
was
confirmed
that
most-’
detected in the biood ard urine of the radioactive dust passed’
The Deputy Prime Minister

of the fpatioots but a very
small quantity in their exe
crements,
This indicates that the rays
have not
o
tafeinal organ
d bieod vessels and give c
for cotimism in their recovery.

However, the b?ood-forming
bone marrow have been attacked by these “bone-seeker” rays
and treatment must concentrate
on the ejection of this radio-

activity from the body,
The normal count of bone

rearrow cells is from 100,000

to

200,000. According to

an

examination by Prof. Miyoshi,
of six members of re Fukuryu

throuzh the digestive system . repEed that the American notice
and was ejected in the excreta. “might create a hew problem
When injected subcutencous- in the hght of the international
ly into the mice the order in Jaws, and also that the Governwhich the body was affected ment is studying howit should
Was similar to when it was in- act toward such a rotice, a
gested orally, Also the cxercta
Beczme radioactive,
This phenomenawas signifi-'

L.

_

cant, Prof, Tsuzuki said, in the:

cure of the “Acute Radiation!

Sickness” as it showed that the'
“hot” elements could be driven!
out without waiting for their
radioactivity to decline,

a

The six radioactive elements
discovered through the chemical
analysis as of Monday morn-

aru No. 5,
ir count was ing besides the others announcsore to es and even | edsSaturday were:
Niovium-95, 90 hours: fodine26,000.
It
is
S.Ne,ed
that “this 1131, € ent days; strontium-89,
23
days: strontium-90, 25 years;
“ction of the
Is
wes
i:

:-Q by the
vtium and

3:

barium.140,
12.8 days;
n
140, 40 hours, ~
monte ttne ",antan:

bone marrow.
But’ as the queunti
Barium found in the %, ast”
was greater than Strontium,
Prof. Tsuzuki ssid it rcede

he said that

The two fish

"Bov’t To Release ¥1.7-Hil.

le

their ejcction ¢ .<'er,
As to their in‘

sol.crhat affect

and

én furth

more suffer from ciniun
tis and corneitis and }heave skin

the intensity decr
lower parts of i
a
The most EXD <d was the
heed, then neck, armpits, both

tards and ebdom
“AS a pesult of

e hair of
ze “a cap the
vity has, come dosnto

The Government Monday deroced to release ¥1,7070% out
state reserves to meet
section

the ‘current *
h dust”
incident of 23 finetmon in the

Bikini Atoll H-bomb test.
This emergency
| the. state fund is exp:

the iecident

;= Or 3 Critical,
Reporis Br.
Tsuzuki
Dr, “lasao
Tokyo Unive
>
:
treating uo Fsherrmen
ed by the H-bomb
ni Acoll, reported to the
Welfare
Commirtae of the Lawer House

Merill Eisenbud, director of the. currer.

health and safety division of ' Japanthe
United
States Atomic, Atell i
Energy Commission, arrived in Sel ran
the Tokyo Internaticnal Air-, Pace

port at 10 p.m. Monday aboard '
a PAA plane,
Eisenbud Was @ Sti
ty guard on his

hurried to an Am«r.c:
bassy car Waiting Jor
out any cornment.

Mer

hit wiih-

He is expected to Jsin the. ticnal

ees:
Monday that two or ihree of
cad “the other «who did not’ the 23 fshermen are in a criti- fear that there would be a de.’
‘ear a hat, two mll-Roeentgen cal con fon at [resent
croase in the s:rount of fich in

nlli-Roentgen

per

hour,

per hour.
Piof. Kimura a>@ others <ctentists conducting the tests are
looking for evidence of cobalt,
plutonium, or uranium
but

(Prot

‘grrve
&

‘The|extre medical circles are the area affected by the atomic
now
hized to
+e tests radizt‘on,
thdse critical “Atomic”
nts, ’ To help cure the “atomie’

Dr, Tsuzuki said, adding that patients complctely, Dr. Tsuzuthere is no fear at this moment ki urged the Government to
have not yet been able to ascer- ‘that they would die in a few guarantee the living of their
tain whether wy were Pre days.
families, not to mention the
sent in the dust..
Dr. Tsuzuki expressed his necessary medical expenses,
Ke

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