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where you would need to know what these backgrounds were,
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MR. COHN:

4n here,

I think I better throw one correction

I said ten to the fourth,

Those figures are ten

to the minus fonnth, and ten to the minus third,

MR, HARRIS:
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whole island tas going to go critical hkre.

DR. SUGHER:

That is a lot of mderial, isn’t it?

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GR. COHN:

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That is what I was thinking, that the

In the thatch thatis five times ten

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to the minus third per three gram sample,

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times ten to the minus third for a one gram sanple of

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MR, HARRIS:

Soil is about one
soil.

Now you are getting domto the plac@s

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close to the background already, and you will have to take

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soon e@ or later such as the natural blankalpha activity.

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They are available. The places to get them are from the

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all the time,

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other interesting things thatnight be of interest here.

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This has been done out there.

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There are— ee
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For instance, among this coral that fell down on

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the island was an added anount of uranium which was set up

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alongside the experinental device to be able to subtract

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out the coral blank,

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