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in oncogenesis and it is difficult to visualize howthese could aperate "a 4r.!
a single low- and a single high-dose mechanism. Without such Girect crn,
the test of the theary rests fie ty tl. on fitumg tines to Gata with cs:
scatter.
The most nested informaths aia the reaim of deac-response PoUtamisn cs,
as tuli and complete coverage a3 possible atlowdoses, an aimest unending 1
fuli rafiees ia sengle experiments, an expensive and ume-consumifqy task. 2°:
information jrara celiudar and ussue oiglegy which would verity the recuse.
now being, if anything, overworked.
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Fall-out from: weapons fesiny.—The enormous ectivity ceneriied 4.
“ falleout cociroversy”” has greatly enhanced our knowredge of ine meteb. os:
and effects of the radionuclides produced in fission. In the period of thts re.te «
the environmental surveillance activities begun by the AEC and later tne Wo2
Public Health Service have continued regularly. They show continued Cecrsiss
in the amounts of radionuclides in tne atmosphere and the biospnere which c2d
their origin in fallout. The regular reports from the AEC’s Health and Savers
Laboratory in New York City and the several stations of the PHS netwerk
reported in ** Radiologica! Health Daia and Reports” should be censu’ted for
details. The effects of Siberian, Chinese. and French fests on the inventory oF
fission products can readily be detected.
Typical and moderately recent reports on the amounts of fission producis
and related elements in the environment (158-171) show the behavior ef th:
importasi nuclides to be predic.able in bread ierms but idigs. crane i Getans.
Remote corners of the world and their indigenous ponulations Five seen searches
out and measured and some evidence gathered of especially mugh conceniranacs
in simple plants and animal lite in the arctic.
The passage of fall-out nuctides through foud chains and their circular or ian
the tropcsphere and stratosphere can nowbe viewed as reasonably, estabi.sr2c
despite ine need for fuller understanding of many details (E7Z-iaus, The Lote
IAEA symposium (180) is an especia!ly useful compendium.
Direct measures of long-term effects of an acute fall-out exposure on man are.
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