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in some of these fish.
DONALDSON:
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study these and he did describe pretty serious thyroid damage
Have you run across any fish in later times
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in your collections that might have manifested thyroid neo-
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plasms, say?
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Yes.
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DONALDSON:
BUSTAD:
I think so,
Because the stage was set for it, sort of
Yes, the stage has been set.
Or couldn't they compete?
That's it?
We have looked diligently over the
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years but we haven't actually seen nor found. fish that we
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could say was specifically killed by thyrota ‘saunge or other
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radionucleid
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situation here as far as the fish are concerned,
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complicating one is that immediately, no matter what the
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radiation levels are, no mtter what the peripheral problem
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are, the cleanup squad move in almost immediately and clean
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things up.
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incapacitated is removed within minutes, at least within an
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hour or so,
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a great regularity.
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predaceous forms.
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seeing a fish or an aquatic animal that has radiation damage
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would be very remote,
damage... Now, there's always the complexing
This means that a fish that is just a wee bit
Sharks move in and they scavange the place with
AYRES;
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And the
If it isn't the sharks, som of the other
So one's chance of actually finding or
Are there any top carnivora that might
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survive, like sharks themselves, even if they are somewhat
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damaged?
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BUSTAD:
The problem there as far as radioiodine
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goes is that they show the lowest concentration,
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not really getting very much radiolodine compared to herbivor-
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ous animals,
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WARREN:
They're
Stafford Warren
Fer body mass,
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