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The values were so low that although

we have better human information on excretion at various
times, the amounts we found in the urine were so low that
there is no significance attached to these numbers.

We

tried it with small volumes of urine and large volumes of
urine,

trying to go as high as three liters of a pool sample

but this does not work because the residual that you get

and the troubles you have with self absorption in counting
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using the larger volume,

negates your result,

Especially in this highly com entrated urine --

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this is very interesting as a sidelight -- in the standard

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procedure at Los Alamos in these urines tlt they use daily on

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all personnel, at the end of the system there is practical

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ignition of the residue takes place,

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out and pieces of glass break up and fall in.

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and a great flame shoots

On the natives this was really something to see

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because of the concentration they had.

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number you cannot depend on.

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the amount of plutonium made in this particular device,

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university is still too great to use plutonium to come out

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with the number of fissions.

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If we take what is known about

take it you did not

pyrotechnical displays to radioactivity.

MR. COHN:

This plutdniunm

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ascribe those

The Japanese did.

There were a couple of other interesting

items that I might bring up.

One concerns the internal

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