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be able to get your cross checks from one to
CDR, CONARD:

the other.

Do these surveys give us any better id

as to what the original dose was by extraplating back?
DR. BUGHER:

There would not be decay, and the decay

with time has become more complicated by the weathering
factors which come in.

DR. DUNNING:

I doubt there wuld be any additional

data that would turn up at this stage of the game that

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would influence our thirking on the original estimation.
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were concerned in terms of the decay constants between

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the cix hour and the fiftieth hour, which might well be a

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different decay than it is now.

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MR. HARLEY:

Your change in total dose would be

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slight, no matter what the decay rate was, after the

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first few days, because almost all your total dose is in

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the first few hours anyway.

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DR. BUGHER:

There is somewhat of a question as to

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how to get the most information with the least work here.

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Payne, do you have a thought here?

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BR. HARRIS:

We

When I read this, I personally auld

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not see any particular reason for doing air surveys unless

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it was to continue attempting to calibrate between good

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round readings and air readings to get a calibratim factor,

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I question whether this is necessary to go to

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the Pacific to do this.

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Could not this be continued in

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