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Strontium 89 was found to be quite high in socoanutl

or in the juice or sap or whatever they call it.

My first

thought was the strontium 89 was absorbed through the
fronds, but as it was pointed out, that the material appeared
in the sap, it seems there was an extremely high uptake of
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strontium through the roots.

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NRDL has also made observations in chickens, pigs,

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fish and so on, and this material is available for the

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published report.

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in March of the Rongelap natives, Americans in March and

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April, Japanese in April,

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alpha,

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on the pooled samples.

and these samples were pooled and

beta and gamma breakdowns were observed at Los Alamos

note, that there was no uranium or polonium observable,

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and of the plutonium, the body content is interpreted to be

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1.6 times 10 to the minus 2 micrograms, or .7 d per m per

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24 hour sample which in the business is taken to be

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insignificant, as far as body content is concerned.

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Gamma studies were made with the counter.

This is

putting the urine samples in the counter.

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is a counter prepared as a liquid scintillation counter in

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which the total arm can be placed.

This orne counter

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The alpha activities, it is rather interesting to

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urine samples were taken

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Alderson Reporting Company
Washington, D. C,

For the content of humans,

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here on that.

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