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But iron goes to very small volumes of tissue.

Specifically,

it tends to concentrate in little globules and you get a very high dose
there because essentially all of the range of the iron-55 electron is
comparable with the diameter of the globuie.

MILLET: May Lask if the unexposed population showed chromo-

somal changes, too?

CONARD: They showed some peculiar chromosomal changes that
we haven't been able to understand yet, chromosomal breakages.
They show about as many breakages of chromosomes as do the exposed people. But I was referring to the more specific radiationinduced types of aberrations, such as dicentrics and ring forms that
occurred.

AYRES:

May I ask about the zinc?

is it stored inthe body?
for something else?

How is that taken up and where

Is it taken up as zinc or is it a surrogate

CONARD: I really don't know.

fairly well distributed, as I recall.

I know it gets into the body and is

LANGHAM: It's concentrated in the epithelial tissues,
is very high, the skin is high.
CONARD:

The hair

Theprostate I believe is fairly high.

LANGHAM: The prostate and pancreas.
greatest amount is in the skin and hair.

Percentage wise, the

BRUES: It looked to me as if the cesium levels were remaining
rather constant in these people. I think that's remarkable. It turns
over with a half-time of three months or so in man. So they must be
in essentially 4 closed environment without cesium drifting or blow- ing out of it.
CONARD: That's so. And I think, as Lauren pointed out, the fact
that this raaterial is sticking in the upper layer of the soil and not
being dispersed, being diluted in soil, so to speak, means that fora
long tirme we'll have levels that can be detectable. *
*Since this symposium, results on the latest radiochemical urine analyses (March 1967 urines) reveal that the excretion of these radionuclides

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