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We are very much impressed by the
fact that this may be the lact decade maybe
only the last few years in history when it
will be poseible to really get some good
data on natural radiation,
The natural beckground has not been
really disturbed yet, It still reads the way
it always hae in my estimates, but it is
changing fast.
In ten years from now it may
be too late to ever know what people were exposed to back in the aboriginal days of 1945
and 1950.
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I think also that with the inatrue
ment, with components that iiave become avail=
able within the last year or so, it is quite
feasible to make these low level measurements
over large areas, relatively inexpensively.
We are going to take worldwide, we
hope, documentation of beckground both as respects gamma radiation and the preponderance
of natural isotopes and Leonard Solon is going
to undertake the gamma background study and
John Harley and his staff, the isotope abundande
study,
We think that this 4s something --
well, what we are going to do is try to have