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that a tremendous amount of kinetic data on
the relationship of not only strontium-90, but
all of the substances that are in fallout in re-
spect to the availability, uptake, retention and
circulation in all of the biological cycles that
eventually lead into the food chain are essential
before one can have an adequate model to
evaluate hazards.
I need only comment on Dr. Terrill’s talk
that the gist of his statement is the sort of thing
that I personally feel should be disseminated
widely in the appropriate form to the public.
In concluding the summary, and although
instrumentation was not a part of this sym-
posium——it was deliberately not a part of this
symposivm—I can’t but have the feeling that
instrumentation development, manufacture and
useis going ahead without, at this time, sufficient
delineation of the real biomedical problems that
need to be known. Perhaps further study of
the instrument side should be gone into and
further evaluation of what docs one really need
to know from an instrument before another
instrumentation development program with its
tremendous expense of time and money is entered into.
In concluding, I would lke to say that this
symposium has been most valuable and educational to me, and on behalf of all of you, I would
like to thank Dr. Dunning and Col. Maxwell
for organizing it. [Applause.]
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