And the other area is one which I do not know that anything realistic-
ally can be done as a part of this, but it seems to me that it is appropriate
to
keep
in
mind,
although
admittedly
provided
for
a
specific
purpose, j.e., the use of medical diagnostic radiation exposure.
It seems
to me that somehow that has to -- we have to keep in mind that as a factor
here. ~.My- overall]
concern
is
one that -- As
I
look
at
many of
these
numbers, “I /am concerned that we tend to become, well, mesmerized, or give
them unduewefght, and we do that in terms of reporting of the values to
two,
occasionally to three significant figures when perhaps
10 magnitude would be. more appropriate,
ll
an order of
or even more appropriate
in other
cases as the recording:has de minimis values.
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CHAIRMAN MOSELEY:
May I say that the Chair was planning to comment
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that this was the first-time-he_had heard from you the admonition to expand
14
the
15
recommendation
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watchdog-type activities in this regard:.
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18
activities
of
you
DR. MC CLELLAN:
the
CIC,"ard
quickly
I'm
delighted
kept me—from
being
that
in
your
disillusioned
second
with your
I appreciate the cammendation from my colleague from
New Mexico.
.
|FEaughter)
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OR. WARD: Mr. Chairman, I think there:are two issues that might be of
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priority to those of us who seem to be outside of the blackest of the cloud
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that has been predicted here.
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little bit more work on the consequences, if any, to—those of us who may be
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recipients of food and fodder grown here, sort of -secondary inheritors, if
25
you will,
That would be -tohave Dr. Whicker do a
of the problem that may be
local.
And the other thing,
of
26 “course, is the correlation between the soil sampling that’s being done now
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and the extended modeling of the fallout to make sure that we are not too
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comfortable by seeming to be outside the centerline of most of the things
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