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Charles W. Edington, Associate Director for Kesearch and Development Programs, BUR CHIKJMOSO?~fiANALYSIS ON BIKINI PEOPIE has been done since his earlier mmo to you of September 7, 1973 on The fol~owing are notes from my di6cusf3i.on8with exports in November 1973. The question addressed to them was would it be scientifically important to get information on chromoflomalaberration induced by low chronic levels of irradiation such a6 these people.may be exposed to when they return home. Another question to thenwas would it be pos6Lble within reasonable Ilrnitsto do a good fitudy. The question whether this information would be medically useful to the indigenous pooplc was not discuesed. Thio i-aa separate concern end may be the most important in determining whether any work of this kind should BREWEN AND PRLSTON, Oak Ridge 200 people, ac say six per claywould take two 6cientists about one month to do. Smul-1medical lab, two portable incubators, Perhaps one pereon could do it, but two would be much better. Need people of the technician level, highly qualified. Carolyn GOOCh could do could do it. More than one lab might do it: shelly Wolff, Mike Bender, Brewen and Preston. Kastenbaum, of!the American Tobacco Institute would be:<agood person to consult on experimental
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Y.ethocl: ‘fheywould like to use their own techniques for look promising. They’d like to use.this population as a test population to work it out. They can see n two to five percent di.!iferencewith age. ~l~{fi variatkon is indeed greater in older people, say in content of DU for a specific chromosome. At that time they figured it would be about 18 months until their methods were ready for field atudie~ and that Blood could be collected infield and sent to Livermore, Chromosomes would be stained with ueual systems and alao with banding methocla. ‘Semen samples might alaa be collected for study apparent that they aee this a~ test some of their 8y6tems; we studied before resettlement or an opportunity to first or at least. resettlement. The sltdes could be made b~ somebody in Hawaii. Perhapa fly blood to Hawaii; slides could be made and stored for exsmin~tion later -- should be frozen, but very important that they be kept dry. People: A professional should plan it and decide who should do it. Carrano iflgood. Petersen and Deav.enat LASL are good. Brewen and Preston are good. A etudy of somatic cell.aberratfonfiiu a reasonable thing to do. \le need ~W dose effectn data, &nd it Iui.ghtbe obtained on these people.
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superb. :;hecould supemlue at the University of An oral 6ummary of theec notes was given to urs. Couard ~nd Barr about Oecember 1973 when Dr. Connrd was at Lieadquarters. My general impression of hig ~e~cssrmnt Ct the tiulewaz; that there were tvo to undertdce tests of thi[lkind which them~elveu could raise problems.