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THE SHORTER-TERM BIOLOGICAL HAZARDS OF A FALLOUT FIELD

DISCUSSION ON TOPIC V

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Dr. Lanaaam. To summarize the status of
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(1955-1946).

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status of internal emitters by really pointing

out where our lack of information might lie
in hopes that it will stimulate the experimental
radiobiologists, primarily, to increase their

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T would like to put on the board the basic
formulae from which Dr. Morgan has worked

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and tables of numbers. From these formulae
one can sce the very inadequacies in our data

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which, if supplied, would allow us to put the
whole subject. of internal hazard on a somewhat

more sound basis.

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