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With those you

can generally come up with a pretty fairpercentage,

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you see when we gend youia strontium result and a cerium
result, right away you say what is the rest of it

So somehow

we want to get some sort of a total figure that will
represent more or less what the activity is.
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MR, COHN:

The total activity,
We have been doing strontium, barium

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and the rare earth group.

On the fish we have broken it

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analysis on sirconium and ruthiniua.
Further than this we have not gone because of the

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DR, BUGHER:

How about plutonium in the soil?

MR. HARLEY:

We have not run any. yet.

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I don't. knowabout Payne.

MER. COHN:

We have plutdnium outside of thefruit,

cocoanuts, papayas of the order of 10 to the fourth
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micrograms of plutoniuna,

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On a fruit, I take it.
Yes.

We have also meesurenents of

plutonium on thatch taken from the top- &

the native huts,

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