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a tule of thvmb that we use, Non for Longor dose for dose.
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Heard from those Russians, you know they were there
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‘and they were very pleasant about the whole thing.
SSH:
Well, getting back to the neutron therapy, were you a part
of that operarion?
KGS:
No, I was just in the same lab.
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Let's start,with Crocker Lab,
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heavily contaminated with things like plutoniumfand so on.
SSH:
But you don't think that was true?
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KGS:
Well, I don’t think so, no.
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I was very carefully l-ve-ween
fandling stuff like that«(fragt ingzisted on recovering everything
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And you can knock on wood, but I'm one of the pioneers that
doesn't ‘have. leukemia.
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SSH:
d like to talk about that a little bit later, let's talk
about crocker.
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went chrougt ,I Srould-showtthem what we did. wish.
our equipment. Katieworked with me for quite while,
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He was from U.C., aw the department of agricultural engineering”