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all of these internally deposited isotopes only amounted to
But it was estixated that the total body dese from
several hundred milliroengtens per year and, as you know, our
ornanw
MPC levels are based on peacetime limits and are very conservative with a safety factor of about 10 which is usually
oo
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cases,
much radiation hazard.
cranked in,
So in the aftermath of a nuclear war it would
seem to me that this Marshallese experience does tend to in-
dicate that one can live in a contaminated area without too
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CONARD:
Yes.
With that degree of contamination.
But even extrapolating back to larger
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amounts, judging by the smaller dosage they received, it would
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seem that it would be a minimal hazard,
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ROOT:
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You mean if you hadh't moved them off at
all it would have been a minimal hazard?
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CONARD:
I would say that it probably would.
I don't
1T
think that I want to stick my neck out that far because I
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really haven't calibrated what the total dose would be if they
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had remained on the Island continuously, put certainly it's
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not anywhere near in the range of the acute immediate hazard.
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ROOT:
You man that's a good shelter hypothesis
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then Lf you can get them all under shelter while the actual
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fallout was taking place?
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without perhaps danger?
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CONARD:
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AYRES:
They could emerge the next day
I wouldn't say the next day.
That's a standard self-defense notion that
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you shelter for a couple of weeks and during that tine the
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drops by a factor of 100 and then you're probably all right.
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ROOT:
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CONARD:
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Yes.
Most of the radioiodine by that tine has
decayed.
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EISENBUD:
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(orf the record]
I would like this off the record.
Stattcrd Warren
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