then we will proceed with these other analyses, the more expensive analyses
of plutonium and plutonium isotopic composition.

The next

Committee

met

viewgraph

to

(LRA-48).

select

the

On

sites

Wednesday

for

the

our

Site

laboratory

cesium-137, and those were the members of the Committee.

Selection

analysis

of

I think Harold

Beckafd Phil Krey with their experience from doing this already in Utah
probably “ provided

the

most

valuable

Hawthorne was involved in the soil

input

and

questions

meeting.

the

ll

provided

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cesium-137, and then thefolks from NV.

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all

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reached agreement in a rather amazing fashion, as it turned out.

day,

did runthrough

The next viewgraph

15

verifications

in —S¥€u Measurements,

and we

Howard

Frosty, in the inital selection of

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the

about

this

sampling and was responsible for that

program; also.:a’very important input.
site

at

of

the

age,

field

and

so

forth.

spectrometry

That was the Committee.

several

of

We

the

We met

hundred prospective sites

and

(LRA-43) basically looks at the soil -- the site

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selection criteria.

17

before we even went into the field.In-essence we are looking for large

18

areas of open, which have a consistent ground cover of lawn as our first

19

priority and away from obstructions, such as—buildings and trees, and so

20

forth.

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is

22

certainly have a fundamental reason for wanting to look at the total cesium

23

that has been deposited on that site.

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criterion.

Other criteria,

subject

erosion,

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Now the first four’ here were the criteria that we had

An absolute requirement, as much as it can be positively verified,

that

the

to

sample

has

and

been

undisturbed

three

it's

and

not

since the testing began.

We

So that that is a very strong
four,

subject

aréthat_the
to

site

accumulation.

is
We

not
want

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definitely a site that retained the fallout that fell “on it and did not

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lose

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waterborne material, or by windborne.

it

by

erosion

and

did

not

accumulate

193

it

by

sedimentation,

from

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