SECREF UNCLASSIFIED Am1175-AEC 2-36-53 Lo . in the future. They ere summarized in Appendix B. cost averaged about $3CC per sample. It is seen he re that the OF course, it should be bore in mind that a University Laboratory denotes many services which would no , be procurable in other environments but it should aiso be borne in m ind (now that the capital equipment is in hand) that the cost of establis project is much higher per sample earlier in history of the pro nt of the t than later. It can be seen from experience on hand that a figure like $100 tol$150 per sample will be most likely in the future, and that the possibility of reducing it much below this is rather remote except for certain particular [types of samples. Furthermore, AEC administrative costs have not been congidered. One could, for example, say that rain sample is much less expensi but the human sample assay has the large cost of ashing which cannot be avpided. averaging over the broad spectrum of samples which are likely to So desired, the figure is something like 9100 ~ $150 per sample. II. DEDUCTICHS Cursory perusal of the data contained in the Pilot Assay Pr am of the Chicago SUNSHINE indicates the following: A. Newborn babies in the Chicago area of sr” or about 1/6000th of tolerance. have about 1/6th SUNS YE UNIT in other words, there are about 0. 37 disintegrations per minute of sr? per gram of calcium in these hu han materials. Wide fluctuations from this average occur. It was strongly sugges) ed by the conference that medical records be examined to see whether any cor) relations exist; when the additional 30 babies now an hand in Chicago have the total number of data may be such that a medical search vill 1045303 SECRET en analyzed correlations. UNCLASSIFIED L ANI