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not more than one per cent.

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COHN:

Do you want to talk about your concept?
Yes.

Our findings are a little differen t

perhaps due to the different approach. we took.

While these

figures on the board represent amounts of body burdens

calculated on the basis of I-131, assuming various assumptions,
our approach was a little different, in that we derived our
estimated body burden extrapolating from animal data.

What

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we did brieflywas to sacrifice two pigs from the island
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after getting a very accurate control of their urinary

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excretion for 24 hours at 81 days.

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radiochemical analysis on all the separate tissues of this

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pig, and also on the urine.

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At the same time we did a complete analysis of a

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human sample taken at just about this time, and extrapolating

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from the pig data to the human, we cons

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total body burden of beta of .33 microcuries at8l days.

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If vw extrapolate this back to 30 days after irradiation,

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this is a considerably difficult thing to do.

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extrapolations are based on animal studies, particularly

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Hamilton's work in which a constant falloff of activity is
assumed,

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Then we did a complete

out with values of

Most-

We know that this is not the case.
The only evidence that I know of in human strontium

inhalation probably is one case at Brookhaven.

We based

our data on the rate of excretion of this inhaléd strontium

of

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