you wanted to say something?

MR. KREY:

Yes.

I'd just like to say that I think you have to be a

little careful when you use those words.

I don't think there's a site in

the United States that received no NTS fallout at all.
DOR. CAROTHERS:

Oh, I understand that.

I've been on the witness stand

and been questioned about, how much js any.
MR. KREY:
States.

So we certainly have made collections all over the United

I think Lynn is planning to take a collection on the west coast.

We've just retrieved a sample in 1982, the end of 1982, on the east coast.
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Yes, there will be other samples around.

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Jim, and I didn't mean to be legalistic in that sense, but it becomes hard

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to define when you say a site that has no NTS fallout at all.

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I'll just throw it out as a suggestion that might be worthy of some con-

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sideration,

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addressed many years ago, as to what area you go to before you say, "I'm no

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longer interested in the impact of NTS."

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and

it

was

DR. CAROTHERS:

the

same

I'm a little sensitive to that,

question

that

the

Steering

I think,

Committee

Phil, I'll bet you Hawaii has very little NTS fallout,

but I'll bet it's got global.

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MR. KREY:

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United States.

I said the United States.

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DR. CAROTHERS:

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MR. KREY:

Of course, Hawaii is part of the

It's part of the United States.

But I happen to know that the University of Texas -- Martha

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Scott is an oceanographer; and she is befuddled with an enormous amount of

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what

appears

to be NTS fallout

in

the

(25 Carribean Sea; so it gets around an awful
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be -- you

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difficulties

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Birmingham, or somewhere like that.

know,

it's

looking

something
at

the

to

dose

sediments
lot.

consider.
from

NTS

in the middle

of

the

I think you just have to
I,

personally,

fallout

in

have

Albany,

some
or

in

Certainly if you wanted to be careful

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