95 decontamination study we did out a small group of in the field. We took the Rongelap natives with the high internal gamma contamination, and treated these with calcium EDTA, given orally one gram per 25 pounds of body weight. I think it is significant to note that we did get some effect, approximately a doubling of the daily 24 hour excretion. ib, Thi while not very significant in terms of the total body burden cause thet means increasing from .1 per cent to .2 per cent Alderson Reporting Company Washington, D. C for 24 hours is fairly interesting. It might point the way 10 to further experiments along this line of preferably giving il the material other than orally, which is the poorest way to 12 administer. Another observation on the animals, which I think 18 14 is interesting, 15 about two weeks after we brought them back to NRDL. 16 interesting, 17 m per shell, which was roughly four times the urinary 18 excretion at this time. 19 amount of activity, 20 a number of the hens started laying eggs Most the shell of the egg ran as high as 60,000 d per The albumin alsocontained a large and the yolk the least amount of activity Also we were interested in fertility studies of 21 these animals that we brought back. 22 the roosters and the hens from Rongelap, and my latest 23 report tells me that 50 per cent of the eggs are fertilized. ARC 24 We have gone into the business, right now. So far we have mated and they are being incubated It will be most interesting to study what the 56