_ 71 SESSION IV ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF WEAPON TESTING INTRODUCTION DONALDSON: This morning we shculd be able to give free rein to our scientific acumen as well as our .magination in our discussion of the environment and man's relationship to it. I'm sure we all have very specific comments and very specific opinions about how man relates to his environment, In the area of weapons testing, also, I'm certain we have an equal number of opinions on the effect of this ac- tivity on man and his environment. I took our cunvener at his word that we were not to write speeches. we weren't to deliver orations; but after 41 years as a school teacher I'm ternpted almost as if by heritage—my mother and my grandfather - were also school teachers--to deliver the morning lecture which should come 24 minutes from now on normal! schedule. FREMONT-SMITH: W:: have 30 years of interrupting practice! [Laughter] We expect to challenge your 41 years. DONALDSON: Looking around, I aaotice there are many school teachers in this gathering. I’m sure they will use the professor's prerogative to interrupt at any moment. , To set the scene, I should like to limit somewhat the parts of the world we are going to talk about. Figure 22 is a map showing the areas on which we shall concentrate, Each of us has his own immediate interpretation of what we think of as environmental contamination. I think if we go back to the source for many of our problems we would go to the Hanford Works or to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and eventually to the Savannah River plant, where materials are fabricated. We have learned to live with radiation in these areas and we have learned a great deal,