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fires.in the Northwest, that you had available manpower and
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In the Appalachians I think maybe fire
In the Northwest you have both
radiation and fire and in the coniferous forests most of them
can be rather disastrous in areas of high radiation.
I know
Ina time of nuclear war you won't have any manpower
So I think fire and radi-
the land,
DONALDSON:
This is the sort of fractionation of
a question Limigine one would expect from pasically an aquatic
blologist as contrasted to a terrestrial ecologist,
Immediate-
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to som of it, say, we had yesterday:
area was contaminated?
Then, back
What would you do if the
The same thing that we were doing at
Rongelap in the early days.
We would run on, sure, grab a
Sample, and then get out and stand in the water up to our necks
until someone care to pick us up.
Sonetimes that was a long
time, quite a wait, but this is just to emphasize the difference
between the two environments, that is, where you have a point
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spread it, plus the shielding, you have just different problems,
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