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Now, we have a topic here of radiochemical
studies, the exteot to which radio chemistry should enter
this environmental anaytical picture,

John Harley, that

seems to be very squarely in your area of interest.
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involved in that,

too.

There are a lot of other people
We have been doing some wowk on

things that I am not sure are entirely useful, such as this
fractionation -- geographical fractionation of material --

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and that is certainly something that we would continue,
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In other words, our initial work was all on strontium.

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now find that we can use cerium moderately well as a long

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term base line similarly to that they use molly for in

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short term studies,

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That seems to be fairly constant.

I think perhaps after some of us can talk this

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run in these different places so we cap use the results from

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one laboratory to another,

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cerium might alwags be valuable for us in our comparisons.

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it is going to bevery-necessary to decide what is

Certainly I think something like

We know pretty definitely that we may hae the

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ruthinius problem here, and itcertainly is present in high

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percentages.

If what the British say is correct, we will

be wanting to get a lot of information on that.
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We hae found that relations are not such that we

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can get all the information we would like.

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