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Wetll have to plant some cosmces
in there,
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Just observe what's there,
As long as
the dose levels are reasonably well known, and I'm not sure
from the conversation whether they are really well known or
peen normal within a factor of, say, one and a half, the total
not.
CONARD:
I would think so, judging from the dose
calculations and the hematological responses of the people,
that we're not too far off,
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AYRES:
With a position of 50 per cent you ought to
be all right,
TAYLOR:
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That's the trick,
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Do people agree that the dose levels at Rongelap have
dose?
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FPREMONT-SMITH:
I would think that there would be a consider-
able difference in the Rongelap mterial, too, than the Brazil
because that would be cumulative and you would have no control
from ground zero before they were exposed, whereas here you
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would have the sudden exposure to whatever it was, 2300 rad
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and would have your before-and-after picture.
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EISENBUD:
So I would
One problem that's cropped up in Brazil
which hasn't been solved that might be pertinent here is the
fact that it's hard to tell where these chromosomals cone
from,
You take a sample of a plant and it's easy to calculate
the somatic dose because presumably the plant has been ‘there
for its life,
But what the dose is at the gene type of that
plant is very hard to calculate because it goes back presum-
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ably many thousands of years and maybe this plant care from
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a seed which was dropped by a bird two months ago and picked
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up ten miles away,
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be true in Rongélap where your coconuts tend to drift around.
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I don't know what the rean distance transversed by a cosmos
And I suppose to some extent this would
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