a
intereactions and attenuations and come
up with an estimate of how much attenuation
you get that nowhere had anybody taken theee
calculations which had been done independent=
ly by many physicists and made them evailable
in handbook form so that an architect can say,
"I've got a cellar which 4s so wide and so
narrow and has such and euch height. *
Here's a super structure in pounds
per square foot and you can calculate from
that how much attenuation you could expect,
At the same time Commissioner
Libby, we suspect with his tongue in his
cheek, asked that we undertake a atudy of
what the Commission's installations could
ao in order to protect themselves against
fallout,
ZI think he had in mind not so much
what the Commission could do for itself, but
rather development of information which could
be used more generally,
Because obviously,
if we could help our own installations in this
way, then all of industry and the others all
over the country can use it,
What Mr, Breslin undertook was a
sort of a feasibility study to see whether
it would be possible to reduce the information
that had been accumulated out in the field into
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