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McCraw:
Healy:
What about copra?
This is a political, not a technical, issue.
What is the implication of not planting coconuts?
Thompson:
Sr doesn't look to be a problem in coconuts.
But BNL estimates 20sr to be a major cause of exposure
in people.
Bair:
Healy:
Surely there must be more data on Sr in other foods.
Are the watermelon values for wet or dry weight?
McCraw:
Healy:
Dry weight.
There must be a source of Sr-90 that is unknown if the
coconut content is low and body burdens are high.
Wachholz:
McCraw:
Healy:
We don't know the basis of the BNL extimates.
Discussed the BNL draft report.
Is LLL getting Pu, Am, Cs, Sr, data from coconuts?
(No answer)
Healy:
McCraw:
Bair:
What do the coconut 1376, concentrations average?
For 12 coconut trees the average ranged from 12-97.
Look at Enewetak:
1)
The people are there already.
2)
When DNA leaves they'll go to the other islands.
3)
I£ there are any foodstuffs on the northern islands they'll
go get them.
McCraw:
4)
McCraw:
They eat coconut in the fields and take them home.
There are two problems;
a)
The hazard due to ~20 uLCi 137¢s,
b)
The disruption and publicity of people's lives; is
this the greatest hazard?
hasn't been
The potential hazard of alcohol from coconuts
considered.