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Dear Kent:
I passed along your paper “The Determination of Internally Deposited
Radioactive Isotopes in the Marshallese Peopla by Excretion Analysis"
to Dr. Dunham per your request. Did you wish us to do anything with
the paper classification-wise?
There are two thoughts that might be of some use to you.
I think
the University of Washington people have developed more data on
contamination in the Rongelap plants than perheps you had knowledge
of at the time of writing. Secondly, an ostensibly representative
sample of a Rongelas meal was collected at the time of the 1958 visit.
A summary of these data is enclosed. If you wish to use these data
Tiwould suggest giving due credits ta Bob Conard et al for their col-
lection and to HAS). for their analyses. Unfortunately this is a
single sample and further there is some question about its being
representative anc about the sample treatment before analyses. As
you know the teams are out there now and wa hope for more and better
ssmples of diet.
In any event, my estimates made about two years ago
based on the limited data then available may be low compared to present
day contamination in the food.
Whereas, my estimates and the still
limited data give a perspective to the potential hazard, they may not
be precise enough for use in establishing relationships with the
analyses results, Incidentally, the relationship expressed in the
last sentence of the srxetion on strontium-90 is not clear to me.
‘Sincerely yours,
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