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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1956)
o o oQ cC on O w n o o O O o o o OC? o o o o Thursday. December (, 1S38 C o o oo o AEC Spending Many Millions in Worldwide Survey To Check on Whole .Radiaf ioft Field t-.'tnor'i Not: eollnwivj to til J af caret dupatrhet (a 3lroitini-St. G JOSEPH L. MYT.CH h share, the effect will be Uiud Press Staff Corr.itiord.nl though everybody had moved Washington j.?., The Atom- j US 3 000 ,eet- iSEnergy Commission is spend- UT- L1D' sa-vs- as tnougn evervDoav . naa movea irom moved aO feet higher. I tional Academv of Sciences says solution now. And when all of it now bus- , that "by the time a worldwide nu-j It is the menace of SR-90 pended comes down and man , clear power industry is develop- j from the big fission explosions, ed, if it ever is, wastes "might its accumulated however, that represent more ; enlists, inside worries the sci and outside the o O c o o o o o '"0" , s o,. o o O O o Daritl Eritfsan Named President ofOFCL . Salem-rrDarrel Brittsa. Med-J ford. studentcbody president at the University cf Oregon, was elected president of the Orejan Federate of Collegiate Leaders at i inter-scfioorconference at ijfillamgteo university recently. GPurpose pjJthe federation if to exchange ideas and eolutums toCproiOiems of sfvdnt jovern ment and the promotion of betr ter relationship between Oron i i - I ing manv ir.illirir.s r,f cuiWurv in a c-SwUmiinsj worldwide survey i Washington' to Denver." O called Trojecl Sunshite. Xt'ragf-iic;eK studying the owho.n fadiation field, are the Na tional Academy ct Sciences, the British rtjedica! Research Coun cil, and a 15-natioo scientific coTrrir.iittee of the United Nations. Project Sunshine now about three years jpld is particularly interested in radioactive strom iuT 90, by far the most serious giooai menace ol nuclear explosions. Sunshina -collects radioactive Qf55.1f)ut rom boilib tests at more O thaa 90 stations in some 50 coun O o tr'ps and territories. It tests osois in alf oi ,ti Earth's majw O geographical " regions for their CD o Sfi&tfO content. It also samples r-' cm' in Mississippi, England, c Japan, (jnd many otfier widely q o separated faces. Practically all til the sciences 0are involved in Project Sunshine O o jfesearsh t,,, the processes by - whU.-h;R-ii gets frtm the bomb to the petson. The -ACE's Mer q rill Eisenhtid has described the q operation's cope this way: - O . "Fromo the .standpoint of its 00 Sast eogr;iphicfcl demensions 0and the variety of scientific PniMianisflu- involved "in the in Ovestigation, Project Sunshine O O rivals the most comprehensive scientific xtudits ever under CO tak'n." Wo S.crets n Q Project Sunshine's data are Bt secret. But it does take tech nic rnrlinftrno trt tinrinrelnrJ and translate them. They are cpouring in ar.d being updated all the time. ThP great tiulk f SR-90 flung rfitS f?ie stutosphere resulted from explosions in 1954, 1955, andahis year. The.se explosions totaled 30 megatons of fission energy. Atom Ic Commissioner Willaad F. Ijbby estimates that atdeat 7JiOO megatons could be addfdjiefore the world's human Inhabitants wvuld receive one jafe MPC occupational. Riduoe the occupational MPC ,or luO -times, as variously proposed toy critics of the test program. and you get cor respondingly lower figures for the sfe ni?gaton -total. You get or 75"megatons. W(sa you consider that the I9d4 U.S. Castle tests alone con tributed 24 megatons, vou can jjiftjerstand why bo:h the gov Oernn'Sjnt ani scientists are con cerned. , "The rate fell off sharnlv in cti55 and 1956 to an average of 'Shree, mefatons a year. Libby O says that if tests continued for a I Sq century at this rate, mankind i roiiW got only about six-five-1 0 hundredths of an .occupational CPPC. e"5 ccAt the Ca?tle rate, however, O Qit would b different story. 'if' v.e tested indefinitely. rrO y"r after year at the rate of ; Castle amcT with bombs as dirty 5 Castle s we'd get in trouble," , tfbby says. and we wouldn't ! n Ao it.-J ,. CSo this country lias turned to i r)majlef, "'eicaner" test weapons j exploded at or near the surface r q to kecy fallout as local as pos- S'Ol , -' . ; Sz On fact that has worried cientists is that SR-90 is a worse I Tijizard in areas where the soil ; qCO iS'luw in calcium. The amounts (--of radio-strontium taken into jslants is hisher in such areas 0H!ian elsewhere. Wales is such fe arearjts soil has 50 times less catciunl! than the average fox Oothcr regions. But Project Sunshine re Osearch indicates that SR-90 acq uishlfin by human beings is by no means directly proportional to the amowit of calcium in the soil. cAccerging to official esti mates. Welshman should have no wctr than doub?e the world aver age of radiostrontium:' O In "-October, Libby estimated this world average would be about four.tKousancUhs of an oc q cupationai MPC when all SR-90 from toststo date had completed itslofoescent atiti humans had iaken up all they were going to. u Lihfevaid tVfentlv that new O fojectSiinshine data indicate j thisgure probaisly is too high; -and that the actual world (lose will be fiwer. 0 People ilways have been bom barded byonuclcar" Tiiiations from naturally unstable atoms Qike(-Jcium gr pottasium, and from cosmic rays. Libby say. cosmicO ravs penetrating th body rieaveo'cJ racks sirrular to ft adiosrontium'j e '. Qf Cosmic radiation intensity in- creases with altitude. According I to i,ibby, the effect of SR0 on people up 0)Tow lias been about the sae as if everbody on ISrth radiation than would be released in atomic war." Such wastes are not, of course, broadcast around the world. But Tests aren't the only producers their existence creates a disposal of SR-90. Peacetime atomic, re-' problem of tremendous magni actors also produce it. The Na- tude which isn't even close to 1 follow this country's example, ! enough SR-90 may have been and do not abandon testing of bombs both big and dirty.. Dr. Ralph E. Lapp, writer on nu clear affairs, sees no reason to believe th test rate will be stationary. D.adlin. Nean Suppose, as Dr. Lapp believes, that the "upward arc of bomb testing is proceeding out o con. government. Suppose the nu clear arms race gets hotter. Sup pose other nations, in addition to the United States, Russia, and Great Britain, get into the com petition, and tests mushroom. Suppose other nations do not 1 trol." By 1962, Lapp fears. "committed to the stratosphere" to give every person on the planet his occupational MPC. These possibilities may or may not be probabilities. The ex perts weigh them differently. 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