levels to low levels because of rainfall, weathering, and so forth, which
would cause them to concentrate in valleys rather than in hills.
It would
be very difficult to find that out, I presume.
Well, a lot of the Pendleton work was designed to measure |
MR. CHURCH:
In the 60s, Bill Wagner's doctoral thesis, which I have a
just that thing.
copy of, was published in the early 70s, and that was specifically what he
looked at was the migration out of the high Uinta Mountains down into the
lowlands.
As I recall, his findings were pretty minimal.
In fact, he had
to look awful hard to try to see anything come down in like 20 miles.
He
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did a lot of ion exchange concentrating out of the streams, just trying to
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find cesium,
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wildlife, vegetation, soil and stuff like that in the high Uintas and found
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lots of radioactivity in those samples
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think that we ever really saw any evidence of a migrating in a way that
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would be of much concern.
as an example.
CHAIRMAN MOSELEY:
MR. BECK:
We sampled,
in the early 60s,
all
in a comparable sense.
of the
I
don't
It was hard to find.
Anything further?
I would just like to remind the Committee that I did report
in one of your earlier meetings about our reanalysis of some of the Larson
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samples from Utah,
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them for cesium,
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compared them with the values we got in the nearby towns, and I think you
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will remember that the values we got were very close to what we would have
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predicted
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analyzing these samples now for plutonium and isotopic ratios, and we will
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be reporting on those results in one of your future meetings, comparing the
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results of those samples with the other results from our own samples.
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for
where we actually got those samples,
and,
that
although they were not exactly
considering
CHAIRMAN MOSELEY:
the
types
Thank you very much.
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of
samples,
and we analyzed
in the towns,
and we
are
we
still