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They note that the cca as compa:ed cto the land is rolevlvely
nonradioactive,
of igneous rocks,
following:
Natural radioactivity of the seas is 1/100 thas
As a result of wee,ons tests they report the
two days after Operation Castle was over in the spring
of 1954 there was a million-fold increase in radioactivity on phe
surface waters near Bikini; that after four months 1500 miles
away it was three times the-normal amount and that at
the area of surface water contamination
square miles,
13 mnnths
had sprcad cver a million
and that at a distance of 3500 miles from Bikini
the “artificial” radioactivity was 1/5 the natural.
They concluded that to date there has probably been no
damage to life in the sea except that at the test site proper,
Tney call attention to concentration of radioactivity by plant
forms in the sea and warn repeatedly against indiscriminate
dumping of radioactive wastes into the sea,
They discuss the
“ e\ushing time" of the Black Sea 2500 years as compared with
perhaps 100 or 200 years for the shalf-deeps of the Atlantic and
Caribbean,
They stress they need to know much more about the
ocean depths and their movements,
(The International Geophysical
Year has a very large~scale study of the depths planned for
1957-58),
This committee would apparently permit “controlied"
sea Gispogal especially of short-livec
racioactive materials,
They recormend that "Industrial agence. .s formulate conventicus fer
the safe dispcsal of atomic wastes at :2a, besed on existing
bre slodce,"
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