Howard Hawthorne is going to regale us next. CHAIRMAN MOSELEY: DR. HAWTHORNE: the room. I usually sit in the back of I'm Howard Hawthorne: I'm accused of sitting back there so I can leave early. Bruce will. be relieved today to know that I am going to stay for all of this presentation. ~ Could- I have the viewgraphs, please. I'm going to go through the viewgraphs rather rapidly because there are only certain points, have copies of them for your later consideration. samples in nine.States. (REECo 20). and you We took We have a little different number of location. We 10 claim 117, and ournumber of sites remain at 190 as of the end of November. 11 The purpose of collecting the soil cores was twofold: 12 validation for the in situ Cesium-137. 13 ratios of Plutonium-239-and~ -240 from which EML can derive the source of 14 the fallout and the proport ions”due to NTS. 15 — one was to give the The second purpose was to derive Our instructions were quite simple: Sample or reject. So we did not 16 make conclusions about the suitability of the spot at which the in situ 17 measurements were taken. 18 really do anything serious about it. 19 We might have~grumb1ed a little, but we didn't Mention has been made that occasionally-we could relocate the marks of 20 the tripods for the in situ measurement. 21 in what Dr. Koranda indicated as the 22 The difficulty with soil collections is that once you have the specimen in 23 the bag, that's the best that it will ever be. 24 what to it afterwards, it will never get any better—than the sample that 25 you took. 26 be the data that you get later; 27 extremes in the collection process. 28 Wetook our ten-core sample with"Xx" range viewed by the detectors. It doesn't matter who does If the sample you took is not representative, then neither will so we go to what may”seem to be some I mentioned, we take ten cores. 111 This goes back a long way historic-