49 1 body burden as presently interpreted in terms of very 2 conservative terms. 8 least, it certainly does not look like this is anything very 4 serious in any of the natives. 5 Alderson Reporting Company Washington, D. C, at and I don't know how one might immediately interpret in 7 terms of strontium 90 which they might have picked up. 8 dose to the thyroid is sizeable, but still relatively small 3 compared to what we usually think of as the dangerous dose il The to the thyroid. So that from the information that we have presently 121 available, I would not be inclined to believe that the_ 13 present body burden is one we need bother much about. 147 external doses to. which they have already been exposed are 15 much more serious in terms of our usual concepts of radiation 16 hazard than the body burdens which they now carry. MW DR. BUGHER: " DR. DUNNING: The Those are very nice figures. I think there is another point that 19 bears repeating here, 20 equivalent of 3 microcuries of strontium 89, but that, too, 71 is based on the assumptions that you have equilibrium 23 In this you have a one shot affair and wit h . conservative picture. 25 Energy canogtye. nt 5 of “ote a that not only is this saying the an expected half life of 53 days, this makes an even more 4 a from this point of view, These are all short lived materials, of course, conditions. Wisteria’ s ulus Phosewi oe So that 6 10 ARC A BR. BUGHER: On a one shot basis, this is provaney | ¥ .,ac2 mi wes nD ae . yi ghia JO