- environment, to try to evaluate the impact of the detonaticns Ww 217 upon the biota presented a task that would stretch the imagination,.I guess, of most of us, at least it stretched ours, nw rather quickly and then get on with the discussion aspects-- or ment quite obviously is one of the important things, but I Would call your attention to the primitive nature of the 0 -— We tried to determine--and I'll enumerate these instruments and the evaluation techniques that were avail- 190 able particularly during the early years. il think in terms of what's available today rather than what 12 was avallable in the hectic 1943 up to 1946 and even in sub- 13 sequent years as we went along. 14 a sealer, an old Victory scaler from som of Dr, Warren's 25 people and we would chop off a piece of fish tissue or som 16 algae and push it in and if we went off scale we would say, 17 "Well, there mat be some radiation there. 18 and push in the next one." 19 or absence situation in the some of the instances, 20 either some radiation or there wasn't, 21 qualify my statement as to the amounts and kinds of radilo- 22 activity which came somewhat later in the entire series, the amount and kind of radiactivity released into the environ- 23 We are inclined to I recall that we used to buy Throw it away So it was essentially a presence There was But I would have to We were particularly interested in the radar uptake 2k particularly by blological systems and this again was depen- 25 dent upon good instrurentation that wasn't available during 26 the early years, 27 of radiation within various systems; the selection and the 28 concentration, and this becom germane when we begin to talk 29 about permissible 30 tion. 31 for example, which will pick out lodine with tacticability 32 to concentrate into the orders of magnitude of a millionfold 33 for short periods of tire. We were interested in the amount and kinds levels because we have selective concentra- Some of the algae groups will take out one entity, These blotting techniques then | Stafford Warren DOEIUCLA &