nm I nM showed chromosomal changes, too? WwW changes that we haven't been able yet to understand, chromo- F somal breakages, w Some as to’ the exposed people, ora They showed some peculiar chromosomal specific radiation~induced types of aberrations such as di- wow N CONARD: taken up and where is it stored in the body? 10 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, 15 16 17 18 exudated, 19 amount in the body, the m jority of it would be percentagewise 20 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 29 soil, so to speak, means that for a long tire probably we'll 39 have levels that can he detectable, 31 WARREN: It's interesting that the tropical rains 32 don't leach it downwards, 33 rains-whtchthey produce quite a bit of water to rhe Prt ead res weld oy 25 26 27 28 The prostate I believe is very fairly Statiord Wain 21 22 23 24 CONARD: + DOE/UCLA 13 14 But I was referring to the more centrics and ring forms that occurred. 11 12 They show about as many breakages of chromo-