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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
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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
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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.
And there has been much sci
entific and political controversy-
over how best to seek a world; of atomic power waste disposal.
curb on nuclear explosions. jBut the .time approaches oyhen
But there is no disagreement they must be solved wheit.oas
that eventually thera must be j the Natignal AcScJemy f Scl
such controls and that, in any entc savj?:,, 73)
event, all-out nuclear war mut "We lcLbf!ttijS be ready with
i - ,i j A o w
never uc -.uowea to naDDen ii rv.ie answers. -
man wants to maintain nisresie
dence on this planet. T . 0
Some ol tile controj problems
seem at times o-. be almost in
soluble. So also do the problems
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