- WN that's probably a major limiting factor, I suppose, in how fF In fact, much will grow. nu it all disappears into living matter. plenty of 411 the elements to go around? or into a pond, If you throw 2 little pae elements in the ocean, but are they available? wo - see this in fresh water situations, 233 able, of course, they are blotted up. 10 Sam illustration with that of my photograph that we pre- 11 sented a while ago in this case were the giant colum end was 12 standing up against this one detomation of the north region i3 at Endwetok. 14 western edge of the atoll. We dubbed this shot "the manure Does this happen in the ocean or is there DONALDSON: I'm sure that there are plenty of And 1if-.you suddenly male many essential, biologically essential, availMaybe we can use the The fallout of this came right across the north- 15 ~ spreader" shot and this was rather popularly used in the test 16 group, for in making the reconnaissance sweeps over the atoll 17 there was a band inside the atoll of brilliant green, just a 18 brilliant green. 19 the relatively blue waters of the lagoon over this green band 20 that persisted for several days and immediately the radiation 21 instruments would jump several orders of mgnitude, 22 was quite obvious the thing that happened. 23 ation had burmed a good deal of the calcium carbonate, just to 24 take one element, 25 an oxide, 26 Being soluble, it was picked up in the explosion of plant 27 growth. 28 In other words, a nutritive media dropped in the sea had 29 stimulated a very great growth, but in this were the direct 30 materlais, if you want a good sample, biased tremendously, 31 this was the place to go get them. 32 tration of radiation tied up in this form, 33 But immediately you had--you can fly from Well, it That is, the deton- It converted the calcium carbonate into The oxide had dropped in the waters as hydroxide, But there are other elements involved in this, too, One could get a concen- Staficrd Warren DOBIUCLA 9 Well, you can carry this still further in the early