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to be quite cautious.
One other point.

You mentioned that since this

is pretty close to tolerance that we don't think it is too
important.

I think we have to be very careful.

While we

may be close to tolerance or a little over, we have a complex
situation in wich we have not only the internal dose of all

these separate emitters added up to close to tolerance, but
which have what we think was close to a tolerance external

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dose.

I think the effects are more than just. additive.

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Certainly it does not affect the acute situation.

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individual studies on individuals separately for many days.

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We tried to correlate our excretion in the nrine with various

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levels of blood picture curves,

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cells,

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and I think we all agree on this, the internal body burden is

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roughly proportional to the external dose that was calculated

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for each group.

the platelets, and white

and we could not find any correlation.

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We did

The Rongelap are the highest.

In general,

The Iligina have

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received half the external,

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Their mean excretion is pretty close to a half of the Rongela

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The American group -- I am not sure what the external dose is

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and they are pretty close.

now -— the internal dose is pretty close to a fourth of the

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Rongelap.

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I think we agree on that now.

MR. HARRIS:

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This shows a little less than a third

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