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to collect more information in order to be in a better
position to
plan.
But to get any information now that anyone
has collected for planning purposes would be of tremendous
importance to the people that have to go out there.
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DUNHAM:
The other thing is the matter of
leukemia which John asked to have some discussion on.
DR. BOND:
May I ask sonething before we get
into that aspect of it?
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in general are commensurate with the dose esti-
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DR. DUNHAM:
150 r is a ticklish problem.
It may be 175, if it was 150 r measure#p
in the air with a different kind of field, is that right?
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This may or may not be.
I believe that.
Do you doubt that?
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This is the problem.
dose rates,
I want to get into that in a minute.
Say 150 r and from coniderations of
say this was given over a period of at least
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get the same total dose that was calculated for the island.
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