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DR. DUNNING:

As I recall it ran between 60 and 76

from the survey team readings.

As I say, after considering

so many factors, one,that most of these readings are tdaen
nine days later, and when you start extrapolating ack, if
your exponent is off, you can be off quite a bit.

Other

things, how long the people stayed there, et cetera.

It

seemed that the film badges worn by personnel, and there
were three,

might be as close as one might hope to come.

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accepting for the Air Weather Service people,

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calculated dose which was mentioned here would also hold

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for the actual dose that would be shown by film badges,

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that calculated for the Rongelap people?

DR. DUNNING:

and the

I thought of that, Dr. Bugher.

and

I

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don't have the firm answer.

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however, that the Air Weather personnel had metal barracks,

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and they were indoors an appreciable amount of time before

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evacuatiom.

I would like to point out this,

The attenuation a@these metal barracks -- if

you

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will just be patient here for a moment -- here is one with a

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factor of two, and so forth.

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DR.

BUGHER:

So the calculated figure here of

60 and 75 did not include a factor for the buildings?

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So one might expect that the

film badges would show less than the calculated.

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that the

relationship between the film badge figure, which we are

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Do you think, Gordon,

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No,

it does not.

I think that is

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