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Dr. Shun'tichi Hisamatsu
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Dear Dr.
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Hisamatsu:
Your paper, which appeared in the Health Physics Journal, Vol.
35, August 1978,
is indeed facinating and of extreme use to those persons engaged in understanding
the distribution of fallout material.
I congratulate you and your colleague,
Dr. Sakanoue.
We are at present, trying to go back to March 1, 1954 and trying to estimate
kind of exposure (doses) that the people on the islands did receive by analyzing
the samples collected at the time from the inhabited islands of Rongelap, Utirik
and Rongerik for 1491.
However, these samples are inherently diluted by the large
amount of soil present thus making the determination of 1291 rather tenuous.
Reading your puper and recognizing that virgin fallout material igs available prompted
me to write to you and inquire a)
whether it could be possible for this laboratory
the
to get from you or whoever has jurisdiction over this "Bikini Ash" a few grams
for l2Sy analysis;
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or b)
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whether I could request that you or some other scientist
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for us.
We would be most happy to share our findings on 1295 in the soil samples
islands and hopefully come out with a meaningful dose pattern estimate.
from
Thank you
Yours truly,
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Janakiram R. Naidu, Ph.D.
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