Howard Hawthorne is going to regale us next.
CHAIRMAN MOSELEY:
DR. HAWTHORNE:
the room.
I usually sit in the back of
I'm Howard Hawthorne:
I'm accused of sitting back there so I can leave early.
Bruce
will. be relieved today to know that I am going to stay for all of this
presentation.
~ Could- I have the viewgraphs,
please.
I'm going to go through the
viewgraphs rather rapidly because there are only certain points,
have copies of them for your later consideration.
samples in nine.States.
(REECo 20).
and you
We took
We have a little different number of location.
We
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claim 117, and ournumber of sites remain at 190 as of the end of November.
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The purpose of collecting the soil cores was twofold:
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validation for the in situ Cesium-137.
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ratios of Plutonium-239-and~ -240 from which EML can derive the source of
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the fallout and the proport ions”due to NTS.
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—
one was to give the
The second purpose was to derive
Our instructions were quite simple:
Sample or reject.
So we did not
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make conclusions about the suitability of the spot at which the in situ
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measurements were taken.
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really do anything serious about it.
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We might have~grumb1ed a little, but we didn't
Mention has been made that occasionally-we could relocate the marks of
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the tripods for the in situ measurement.
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in what Dr. Koranda indicated as the
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The difficulty with soil collections is that once you have the specimen in
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the bag, that's the best that it will ever be.
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what to it afterwards, it will never get any better—than the sample that
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you took.
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be the data that you get later;
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extremes in the collection process.
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Wetook our ten-core sample with"Xx" range viewed by the detectors.
It doesn't matter who does
If the sample you took is not representative, then neither will
so we go to what may”seem to be some
I mentioned, we take ten cores.
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This goes back a long way historic-