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the roadside in many areas or did then.
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In Japan it grows along
he was making, though, was a situation that you find these
r
Essentially that.
averrait forms all over Japan but it was the frequency and its
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SCHULL:
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The very count that
relationship to growth that is the real key, and I think that
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ably don't have enough known about the gradient in dose so
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this would be typical in Bikini or Eniwetok because you prob-
the frequency is varying as the dose is varying.
that you could make any kind of strong statement to show that
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CONARD:
You would have quite a gradient on Rongelap,
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2300 on the north island as compared to 265 on the southern
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islands.
That's quite a gradient.
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UPTON:
But in point of fact no neasurenents of this
kind have been made to date?
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CONARD:
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EISENBUD:
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So far as I know, they haven't.
These aré not high doses compared to what
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can be obtained in these areas of natural radioactivity,
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example, in Brazil the ambient levels from external radiation
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are about 3 mrp per hour downwards to norm] levels, and this
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is about 12 r per year.
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rads,
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longer.
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the internal, which is, incidentally, very hard to calculate
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because they are alpha-betas and the location and relation of
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the genetic material hasn't been worked out yet, the internal
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dose is presumably much higher so that I think that there are
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probably situations in nature where this kind of a situation
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could be obtained if one wanted to,
So that in 100 years you have 1200
Presumably som of those forms have been there much
And then if you superimpose on that the dase from
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PREMONT-SMITH:
Dr. Taylor, you just wanted to say
something.
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TAYLOR:
It just occurred to we that there's a mass
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of data sitting there at Rongelap walting to be gathered and
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looked at,
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