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something like that.

MR. HARRIS:

They had maybe 20,000 REP of high

energy beta.
DR. DUNHAM:
CDR. CONARD:
MR.

HARRIS:

It was full thickness damage.
A fission product material?
Yes,

sir.

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Washington, D. C.

they picked up with their hands.

It was filter papers that
There was a small amount

of Neptunium.

I would guess it was only a small proportion

of the total.

You can get this number very easily by

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comparing it on the Nevada explosions,

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with any sort ofa standard Nevada explosion, you will come

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out with the number of Neptumium which would be the same that

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they had.

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CDR. CONARD:

and if you compare

As near as I can understand,

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practically all skin nalignancies develop ontop of a

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well recognized breakdown of the skin, chronic dermatitis

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or the usual chronic changes that occur after radiation.

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vast majority of these people have shown no signs of

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developing chronic dermatitis or atrophic changes.

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are a few,

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one or two.

A

There

One or two of the foot lesions show

some evidence of scarring and atrophy, and the persistent
ear lesions.

DR. DUNHAM:

ARC

You would give them all at least 20

years?
DR.

BOND:

That is for malignancy.

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