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deacribes procedures to be followed, measurements to be made,
contaminated areas to be demarcated, and techniques for decontamination, But shou'dn’t there also be devised a manuai concerned
with psychological problems, political problems and economic problems? [e this a matter that should get some thought on the basis of
your experience?
LANGHAM:
Well, I'm pretty sure it’s getting thought.
it’s just
almost impossible to sit down and write a manual that's going to fit
&@ situation,
You have to visualize the situation and then you write the
manual to fit it.
FREMONT-SMITH:
ual has to cover.
This means cvery potential situation the man-
LANGHAM: Yes, and invariably it occurs where you don't expect
or under conditicns you den't expect.
FREMONT-SMITiH: And the manual would have to say, “Use good
judgment."
LANGHAM:
this.
.
That's right.
There's no manual for a situation Like
For example, I finally ended up with sorne dear, dear friends
amongst the Spanish people. I meanthey are wonderful people, at
least the ones I dealt with, and [ have no rason to think that they all
are not, But we started out bargaining. Now, how much would we
clean up? And one of the gentlemen said, "Well, we think you should
pick up every atom of plutonium you dropped in Spain and remove it,"
to which I replied, “You know, of course, that's an impossibility,
don't you?" He said, ‘Yeo, but it's a good position to start from!"
[Laughter] We made a decision that if the contaminstion was above
a certain level, the soil and crops would be removed; if it was between
other levela the land would be plowed; and then at the lower levels it
would be eprinkled: and at still lower levels nothing would be done
with it. So we set a level at which we would plow. Noone really
thought about it. This was just part of our agreement. When we got
into the mountainous area where the cuntaminated cloud had come
down in the valley, it was juet sheer rocky mountaicsides that were
contaminated above the level that we had agreed to plow,
FREMONT-SMITH:
You can't plow a mountain.