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showed chromosomal changes, too?
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changes that we haven't been able yet to understand, chromo-
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somal breakages,
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Some as to’ the exposed people,
ora
They showed some peculiar chromosomal
specific radiation~induced types of aberrations such as di-
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CONARD:
taken up and where is it stored in the body?
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up as zine or is it surrogate to Something else?
AYRES:
CONARD:
May I ask about the zinc.
I really don't know,
How is that
Is that taken
I know it gets into
the body and is fairly well distributed, aa I recall it,
LANGHAM:
tissues,
It's concentrates in the épithelial
The hair is very high, the skin is high,
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exudated,
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amount in the body, the m jority of it would be percentagewise
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in the skin,
high.
LANGHAM:
The prostate and pancreas,
There is zinc
The skin and tne hair, if you calculate the total
BRUES:
It looked to m as if the cesium levels were
remining rather constant in these people.
remarkable,
or so in man.
I think that's
It turns over with a half-time of three months
So they must be in essentially a closed environ-
ment without cesium drifting or blowing out of it,
CONARD:
That's so,
And I think, as Lauren pointed
out, the fact that this material is sticking in the uprer
layer of the soil and not being dispersed, being diluted in
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soil, so to speak, means that for a long tire probably we'll
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have levels that can he detectable,
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WARREN:
It's interesting that the tropical rains
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don't leach it downwards,
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rains-whtchthey produce quite a bit of water to
rhe Prt ead res
weld
oy
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The prostate I believe is very fairly
Statiord Wain
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CONARD:
+ DOE/UCLA
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But I was referring to the more
centrics and ring forms that occurred.
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They show about as many breakages of chromo-