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TAYLOR: Then let me mention what may not be 2 difficulty. Some
of the significant effects, at least in the Marshall Islands, were due
to fallout, literally to fallout, to material falling on the community
that is being irradiated, and that has at least two effects that are
different from what you get with a gamma source. One is that chemistry is involved, biochemistry, and tie other is that there are things
like beta burns which are not produced with a cesium source.
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Now, in connection with this last thing, Ihave heard many people
say that deciduous forests are relatively radiation resistant, Is it
really clear that they are also resistant to beta and alpha activity
distributed on the surface of the soil trickling down through the trees,
particularly in the wintertime?
The state of ecological complexity
right near the surface is considerable and it would appear to me that
you don't produce a lot cf effects by irradiating to very high dose
levels the firat few millimeters of soil.
WOLFE:
You just kill everything at very high levels.
TAYLOR: Yes.
WOLFE:
The question is, will that kill the trees?
Deciduous trees?
TAYLOR: Yes.
WOLFE:
No.
TAYLOR: You say all of the tratsfer between bacteria and fungi .
and nematodes and all these things that go on in the upper foot are
not affected by the fires?
WOLFE:
I would doubtit,
[At this point in the session a film "Return to Bikini" was shown.
following discussion pertains to the film, ]
The
DUNHAM: Lauren, this isn't the way Lheard the story. There was
a movie I saw a few years ago that was announced to the oublic by Ian
Fleming with a 4-page spread in the London Sunday Times which
showed little fish that had become disoriented, losing their way, trying to clumb trees, which showed sea turtles who tried to find where ~
to lay their eggs. They laid great quantities of eggs which were sterile and then couldn't find their way back to the sea. {t showed piles