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.! I BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES, INC. PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED Upton. New York 11973 Manager, Human Effects Studies At the time of the recent Congressional hearings on Bikini,several people from Bikini who were attending the hearings in Washington visited and At a jiB a los, Marshellese Congressman, also visited.) Two of the Bikini people,, who had been living on Bikini as Health Aide, and a -,- living on Majuro, had whole body gamma spec tro - . graphic analyses for Cs-137 and K-40 done by Dr. Cohn's group a t BNL and a t NYU by Dr. Cohen. The latter also did an analysis for Am - 241in his special counter.Copies of these reports with comparison with Mr, Eli lten berger ' s counts at Bikini in the latter part of April are enclosed. You will note that there is a discrepancy between the BNL and NYU CS-137 counts (which are in close agreement) on the one hand, and those of Mil ten berger at Bikini in April. the following explanation of this discrepancy.At the time of the finding of elevated counts at Bikini,the people were advised to refrain from eating complied. Ifso,he claims a subtraction for loss due to biological turnover would put his counts only 10-15% above those reported above (a reasonable difference). The agreement between the K-40 counts would tend to support this explanation.In any event,this is only one case. The finding of no detectable Am-241 (200 pCi lower limit of detection) in the skull of-and n o x-ray peak for Pu-239 is encouraging. It will be interesting to see the results of radio chemical urine analyses on the people living at Bikini now in progress and to be reported soon by PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED ,
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PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED Average US Males 3 3 0 , 0 0 0 0 . 0 0 2 5 --!- , 0 0 6 * Corrected for biol. loss (18 days from Eikini))if Eiol. t-1/2 = 100 d PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED
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