~— CHAIRMAN MOSELEY: w MR. ZIMMERMAN: MR. CHURCH: Was that clarified to a certain extent? Yes. Mr. Chairman, I think it is probably also appropriate to clarify the chemistry techniques. made it confusing, that the REECo chemistry procedures procedure td the EML one. MR. BECK: We either didn't make it clear, or we is an identical If I'm wrong, somebody correct me. That's correct. MR. KREY: “Na, that's correct. MR. ZIMMERMAN: That impression I got was that it was something 10 different because you were talking about eliminating the thorium, 11 recall. 12 ma MR. KREY: as I — They are using the exact procedure. There jis a little bit 13 of uncertainty as to why’ they thorium and the polonium is showing up in the 14 final product. 15 might explain it, but the procedure—is identical, 16 is, why did they get that when we don't. 17 same, at least as I understand it. There are some~chemical reasons that we can propose that 18 CHAIRMAN MOSELEY: 19 DR. SARN: and the confusion part But the chemistry is exactly the Dr. Sarn. I don't think I can resist saying something about the CIC; 20 but I would say with the limited funds of CIC, we'll need to be selective 21 with regard to what kind of information it's going to gather and store, but 22 at the same time it must also be concerned with information which has been 23 shown to have a high public interest in addition -te- information that is 24 purely technical or scientific 25 dramatic and being mindful of other momentous events in the history of the 26 world, I think the creation of nuclear weapons and its testing is certainly 27 one of the key historical occurrences in the history of man, and I think 28 people who operate very close in nature. to 285 it I think—that, sometimes fail to without being realize the

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