that that's peen seen in any of the bomb test irradiation?
MILLER:
Not in the wild state but in the labora-
tory animal certainly.
TAYLOR:
How about fish, for example?
When the fish
are irradiated when they are developing eggs, do the eggs
lose their fertility like that?
The chronic
ont
You can go the whole gamut,
exposure over long periods of time and pick a level, a half-
Dn
hour per day for 100 days of total exposure at 50 roentgens
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and follow them through several generatigns , and instead of
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finding a damaging effect you find a stimulating effect.
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Double the dose, and the sam sort of thing happens.
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it again and I'll give you the answer in part tomorrow,
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be a2 midwife tomorrow while you're enjoying yourselves here,
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FREMONI-SMITH:
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PREMONT-SMITH:
DONALDSON:
They're the only ones that actually
com hom to us from the sea,
result of the radiation?
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DUNHAM:
Yes,
You
still are losing 90 or 99 per cent of them,
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They are bigger and better as a
Are they all or are they selected?
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I thought there might bé somebody
that would know it,
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These are salmon?
Yes,
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that have had this experience.
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or double
Yes,
The survival is better---
It's the ones that come back that are
bigger and better,
FPREMONT-SMITH:
Do you lose 90 or 99 per cent?
Is
that right?
BDONALDSON:
actually the normal expected mortality
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