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This is a baby chick that was just born maybe a

week or so after the detonation, and here you have an
abnormal morphological picture.

In the audiograph you get

a concentration of radioactive material in the diaphysis
here and practicaliy nothing on the ends where the bone has
grown subsequent to the removal of the animal from the island

Here you have the bone marrow which would presume
to be abnormal and perhaps due to the deposition of active
material here, due to radiation ~- and this is anotherchicken

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You nve the same thing in a chicken bone.

We

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have trabecular tissue extending down through the bone. quite

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a way, which/do not find normally.

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reabsorbed here.

This would normally be

These are two separate animals.

You note there is not the same concentration in eac

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animal, presumably depending on the dietary pattern.

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have similar audiographs for a number of the other animals

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also.

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the iodine diffusion.

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bone here again, looking abnormally morphological.

We

The picture of iodine in the thyroid is typical of

DR.

BUGHER:

Could you make an estimte of the

jodine dose?
MR. COHN:

Yes.

About 15 microcuries was the

estimate calculated back to exposure time.

It is considerably

more than the humans.
MR.

HARRIS:

15 microcuries where?

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