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in the sea which is quite completely different than the com-
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mineral deficiencies that for the most part do not occur in
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the sea,
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about the iodine, but again generalizing, the cesium uptake
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on land is directly related to the deficiency of the fat.
The strontium-90 on land is an uptake we say because you have
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Then we might comment on the competition that exists
the calcium deficiency, and I just mentioned a few moments ago
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that there billions of tons of calcium in an atoll that's.som
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4300 feet thick column that grows on the island.
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in insoluble form and only when it's made soluble does this
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becom in evidence.
Now, this seems to refute the comment I nade earlier
But this is
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So, in the sea the potassium ratio is about 360 parts
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per million and on land the calcium is about 440 parts per
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million.
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two of cesium or a straight atom or two of strontium in the sea;
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we can't get excited at all about it.
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great nuclear war, I'm going to rum out and catch myself a
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fish and eat it entire and feel quite secure that my food
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supply isn't in jeopardy.
So it's not quite obvious that a straight atom or
So when we have this
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Well, if we may have the next slide, please,
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May I just interrupt.
That's cesium there,
isn't it, Cs?
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DONALDSON:
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In terrestrial areas it's quite obvious that ‘in sore
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instances there's little chance for re-vegetation or regrowth.
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The soil is burned away; the seeds have been destroyed; the
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entire fauna and flora one would assure in this place would
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not be re-established.
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Yes,
The next one, please,
Now, in areas where the soil
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has not been burned and has not been removed, you see in
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this illustration the soil core where the organic metertial
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