164 UPTON: DASA 2019-2 Yes. About i2 hours. CONARD: How long did the white ash fall? WARREN: WARREN: So they couldn't have been standing neck deep in the tagoon for 12 hours. : CONARD: under water. No. They would have had to hold their breath and go UPTON: Because one may imagine that the best preparations are not likely to be made in the event of such a thing in the future, one may have to improvise in every case, WARREN: provise for. So you have. to have the knowledge to know what to im, FREMONT-SMITH: You would have to have about seven impro- visation plans depending on what actually happens. WARREN: Yeas. UPTON: We knew that reactors are going to blow up from time toa time. They will be localized events. What does one doin a case like that? , EISENBUD: don't blow up. UPTCN: [t's an altogether different problem, Arthur. This is a misconception. They , Well, take Wind Scale, EISENBUD: Wind Scale didn't blow up. You said there was great fatality in the event. I'll let you take literary license with it. What happened was that the lighting failed and the fuel began to burn and it went out over the countryside. That's generally the type of accident you could expect. With the melt-down of fuel and the release of the volatile constituents, unless we are awfully wrong—and | don't see how we could be at this late date—the only exposure would te to the radioiodine. BUSTAD: Possibly the cesium,