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On looking over carefully previous data from the

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Japanese and accidents that have occurred at Los Alamos

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before, although not emphasized.

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groups even in the Japanes, while the total exposure group

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followed may have been in the hundreds.

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at a given time were done o a very few individuals, as low

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the group.

Actually the counts

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accurate comparison between the two exposure groups.
In thecase of the Argonne accidents, we have to

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compare our data with one or

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dose range.

two individuals from a comparabl

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We attempted to make some correlations between

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skin lesions, depilation, and various parameters derived

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from the blood counts.

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between hematological changes or skin or depilation changes.

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All efforts in this respect were not

We were unable to evolve any correlation at all

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final note on the hematology.

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time trends,

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as has been pointed out, are essentially identical to that

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of an individual exposed at Argonne National Laboratory, who

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received an estimated 190 REP of radiation.

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for this individual to date has been excellent, and we hope

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