C. IAIRTISEN:

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strontium vhen you cultivate a pieces of land.

These figures

may be very mich too lev,
On the cther hand, I don"t know what the scurce of strontiun

fertiliser is, lit they aight not be contaminated,
TAURTISEN:

Bat you need to replace certain things that you take cut

of the soil.

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If you're replacing though strontium with uncontaminated
strontiun, this ie in your favor,
LAURITSEN:

That is quite true, if you do that, but what if the fertiLiser .ccce

os

I don't kucw,

LAURTESEN:

Moat organic fertiliser, ani that certainly would be fron

JI just raise thie question,

other parts of the world, and you would eclilect the strontiua
from the area where you raise the food.

This vould even be

true ef seaveed and fish bones.
ROLDAN:

Seens to we that this sort cf ties in with the rather shortrange problem.

Suppose all the future bombs are surface

burate cr near-surface bursts and then in the fallout, at

least the major portion of it comes down, say within 1,000
square miles,

You have a tremendous dilution facter when you

wtart talking about dividing by the 50,000,000 sq ai of the

earth,

It seems tc me that all these factors, in a realistic

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