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the people that are interested in dose to ask them to write

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a separate addendum amplifying the uncertainties.

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DR. BUGHER:

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CDR. CRONKITE:

Then we get away completely from

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the Neptunium, and the unfortunate statements in the first

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report of talking about tritum and lithium and one thing and

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another, and our ignorance of whether they were important or

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not.

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Yes.

DR. BUGHER:

Yes, I think that is a good point.

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When it

comes to the proportions of isotopes in fission

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products in the fallout material with respect to those

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that are of medical importance, we have essentially released

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that information to the Japanese in the following form,

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that is, we have told

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substances followed the bimodal efficient curve for uranium

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235 for fast neutron fission with respect to the modal

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regions, not with respect to the other.

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information, that while we were not saying that what we were

them that the pattern of those

We gave them this

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they covld use those parts of the published curves and it

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would give them approximately the relative amounts of those

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isotopes,

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cesium,

barium,

lanthanum,

that appeared to be in the material that fell out.

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So that much of the statement is already essentially

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public knowledge, because if we have given it to the Japanesd,

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such as strontium,

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