good considering the manipulations that the
predicted data was put through.
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me.
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I think probably I can swing right
into the second part of my presentation which
4s the open field burning experiment,
I think I can save a little time on
this one,
The matter of Aisposal of waste
materials from all of the Commission actie
vities 1s a very big-one,
It is big mostly
from the standpoint of economics and probably
more important because it is very difficult
for us to define the hazard which might be
involved.
We know that uranium, I don't mean
uranium, but radioactive material is very easfly measurable and «almost anyone can pick up
very, Very amall quantities ofit,
In all probability the denger to the
general population or to any individual from
handling of uranium is pretty comparable with
that from the handling of lead or meroury or
other materials like this and yet, no one
would even consider that it would be neceseary
to be extremely careful about disposing of scrap
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