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CHAIRMAN STRAUSS: We could not stage it for them. They
just turned around and left,
CHAIRMAN STRAUSS; Another thing about it is that since the
fallout patterns have been established pretty well, they now in addition
to the photograph apply a fallout pattern to the map, and there are
just about two optimum areas, One is more or less west of north
of a line that would run perpendicular north, which would run over
this Lincoln, Minnesota, There was group of people there, They
had arranged in that event the men would stay in the mines, and the
women and children would move out in busses. That was the best
route north, Ten degrees east of that they got into more settled areas,
There is another apparently optimum direction almost due south,
Isn't it east?
CHAIRMAN STRAUSS: No, East they got over Pioche and over
St. George, which they apparently always plaster,
MR, NICHOLS; I thought it was just south of those two places,
CHAIRMAN STRAUSS: South of those two places is a very
narrow corridor where if the wind shifts ten degrees in either direction,then they are in trouble again, Of course, they really never paid
much attention to that before,
MR. NICHOLS:
Those charts are the same as when they explained
t.em to the Commission at the time we went over the criteria,
CHAIRMAN STRAUSS: At that time they did not have on them
what they describe now as hot spots, What are they, Bill?
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COMMISSIONER LIBBY: I think we ought to talk about this,
I don’t want radioactivity falling on people's necks, but it is an
awfully serious thing.
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