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Climates and different relationships altogether,
the way ecology is.
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at least between the exposures at Bikini and Hiroshima and
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Aren't there two very significant differences
what you do at Oak Ridge and at Brookhaven?
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TAYLOR:
It involves geography.
in dose rate phenomena..are not producible on a large acale,
You can't irradiate a group of trees in a very short time,
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That just is
Brookhaven,
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TAYLOR:
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We do have @-ceslum source in 4a forest at
Yes, but som of the irradiatior are in
milliseconds, as I understand it.
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UPTON:
That is the close-
The dose rate phenomena---
One can tend to similate this with a fast
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TAYLOR:
Are these ecological studies?
Yes,
From the tower,
Then let me mention what my not be a dif-
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ficulty.
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Marshall Islands were due to fallout, literally to failout,
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to mberial falling on the commmity that is being irradiated
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and that has at least two effects that are different from what
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you get with a gamm source.
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biochemistry, and the other is there are things like beta
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burns which are not produced with a cesium source,
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Some of the significant effects, at least in the
One is chemistry is involved,
Now, in connection with this last thing I have
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heard many people say that deciduous forestsare relatively
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radiation resistant.
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resistant to beta and alpha activity distributed on the sur-
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face of the soll trickling down through the trees, particularly
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in the wintertime, because the state of ecological complexity
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right near the surface is considerable and it would aprear to
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me that you don't produce a lot of effects by irradiating to
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very high dose levels the first few millineters of the soll,
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WOLFE:
Is it really clear that they are also
You just kill everything at very high levels.
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