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Well, what he's saying is, if you KA11 all the people in that area...
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In that area, but I'm worrying about the people who live off of that area,
PLESSETs
Not so significant in overall hzsard as the primary level.
KERANISHs
I think it might be.
BESHEs
We can evacuate the ares, and then the story is that they can't return.
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Well, to snswer your question, Armeld. One ia, cose.-..Wwell in
the first place, I'm talking mly about telerance concentration
of 307 ag compared to extresely high concentration of external
radiation, end second, if you are talking abcut localised aress,
you have two possibilities in case of warfare.
One is that
you're going to wee it for agricultural purposes that you can
devote it to products which msy be less critical than other
products, that is, there are a number of possibilities of being
able to use it productively at « lesser average risk then we're
considering when you have the whole country uniformly contesin-
ated,
And another is that if it is a small area, in general the
produsts from it, if they're used to feed a large population
will be diluted with products from other uncontaminated sreas,
#0 you get sone factors of safety there, and as I've already
pointed out, you have a number of years to work this out after
it happens, and you can do quite a lot to alleviate the hazard,
LONG?
Now, there's one fact that I was curious to ask about.
I got
the impression that in Mr. Bethe's ealeulation, thatthe
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