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While using their figures for biological half life of

this period of 81 days extrapolating back to 30, we come out

with a body burden of 1.4 microcunes at 30 days.
Barium comes out .7, Lanthanum is .7.

The

remainder of the activity, the rare earth group, comes out .4}
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Strontium, barium, and the rare earth group together

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constitute about 75 per cent of the total beta activity.

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If you want to extrapolate this back to one day --

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and this is a very difficult thing to do --~ we decided the

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Strontium is

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level.

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give a value quite a bit higher.

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way to do this would be to use the human radium data.
known to fall off at the same slope ata lower

We have not calculated it for one day, but it will

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HARRIS:

No,

f don't think so.

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think if te

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30 day level of strontium, taking in per cent of the total

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amount in bhe body of the dose given, it may come up about

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the same as the number which we took back to one day.

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MR. COHN:

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MR. HARRIS:

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We will have to check this further.

This can be checked.

MR. COHN:

The half life of strontium in the first

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three days is quite tremendogs.

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life of about 4 days.

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this puts us in much better agreement than we were before.

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We found no evidence of calcium 45.

It has a biclogical half

You have to be careful in extrapolatin

Since we have no sample earlier than 16 days, we huve

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