. , ais quanti i, my vat, a) . a # gf _ a a Aasitht Well, what he's saying is, if you KA11 all the people in that area... VOICE: 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. WESTERN ¢ 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 ae DUE ARCHIVES