Early in August, Kr. Floyd Lamb of Alame, Nevada, requested that the Commission examine some of his cattle which had lost patches of E g | A E § i 8 i believed to have been caused by radiation. the . fhe UF been engaged in a long-range steady of cattle which had been exposed at Alamogordo during the 1945 tests. products tive eeil caught within a few miles of the unilerground shot during weapons test detonations(Jangle). The radioactive soil was added to representative soils found in the United States, Crops grows in these soils take up a sizeable amount of the total activity present in the original radioactive naterial. The activity is mainly radicactive strentim. Flants grown in typical eastern acid soils low in caleium tm: 2p usny Sines ae wach radioactivity as in _ western type alkaline soils. The large differense between uptake of the activity from the various soils indicates the @pendence of the uptake of strontium on the level of exchangeable caleium in the soil. Contimed investigations will also include the use of weathered fall-out radicactive material ® fTosse studies involve long-term investigations om distribution of radio~ activity and blological pathways whereby the saterial my be ebsorted, and the effects of the deposition in plants and animals. industrial Realth Health Physics Physics(UNCLASSIFIED) A.elassified Health Physics Conference neld at Falls, Idebo, on Oetober 16-18, 1952. The meeting which will be sponsored by the Division of Binlogy and Medicines will inelude industrial health personnel from AkC-eontractors, military and civil. defense agencies and the Commission, OFFICE p |_...__.---------------------|------ | SURNAME }_--___-.--.------.-__---_---]--------+---~--------------- ae ht wanna DATE } |__...._-.-___----..---------|---------------------------Form AEC-318 U. &. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OF 16—62761-2 £