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trying to consider both the actual estimated intake for a given day
and also estimations of what this will be over the space of a year.
Representative Pricr. Mr. Ramey.
Mr. Ramey. Do you consider that the FRC guides, which are essentially prepared for normal peacetime operations, to be applicable
to fallout and to your iodine 181situation ?
Dr. Cuapwick. I will be discussing this to some extent in testimony
on Thursday. I think it depends on what one meansby “the guides.”
I think the guidance and the method of approach and the general way
that you consider the matter is indeed sound.
The specific numerical values I think one might have to look at
more carefully in a situation of this sort.
Mr. Ramey. Yet, the way it is set out, you would seem to have your
normal peacetime values applicable to your fallout situation. J am
not saying this is right or wrong.
Dr. Cuapwick. You mean the way this paper is written ?
Mr. Ramey. Yes, and just looking at the guides.
Dr. Cuapwick. I think they serve as a benchmark, as it were, for
comparisons. Indeed, they are the only benchmarks we have for
comparisons.
To that extent I think one would continueto use them as some measure of what the present situation was to try to relate it to something.
You would relate it to the
guides for normal peacetime operations.
Representative Price. You mention the subject of strontium 90.
when wil you have the data from the 1961 Soviet test series pubished ?
Dr. Cuapwickx. We publish regularly. The values for strontium
90—for strontium 89—are included through March of this year. We
have already published and released the values through March.
The values for April will be coming fairly soon. In other words,
we are just. seeing now the peakfirst year values from the Soviet tests
of last fall.
Representative Price. What data do you plan to publish concerning the short-lived nuclear debris other than those you have covered ?
Dr. Cuapwick. We have covered in our report—we have covered
completely—the iodine situation because that is complete as of now
from thetests last fall. As far as strontium 89 is concerned, we have
covered that. fairly completely also in the background papers which
have been submitted for the record.
Representative Price. I wonder if because of the great amount of
interest that at least. those of us in the Midwest have found about the
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