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(roughly 10 rem/yr).

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Neasens Test Fallout

Another seurce of human contamination that is suggested
as being pertinent to this oroblem is the plutonium in the
fallout from nuclear weapon tests.

The slutoniun from

weapon tests is incorsorated in or devosited on sarticles
other materials

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smaller than that in hot particles.

between 1/1702

and 1/10,000.

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should ass2ss the risk associated with environctental plu-

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