Paul S. wrote:Langley wrote:Long winded and confusing, sorry. Chapter pressed my button.
Fascinating post there, Langley. A LOT to chew on. Thanks for taking the time to float all those balloons. Glad I pressed your buttons, thanks for pressing back.
--PS
This is no work for me. It is a very healing excersize for me. Thank you for writing the chapter. It is brilliant.
Just this week, America lost a Native American leader and campaigner from the NTS area. He passed away from prostate cancer.
I cant possibly be right with all of it. Logical consistency isn't proof. But Id be amazed if Brown and Pauling didn't cross paths.
Report on Project Gabriel in text form is here:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/radiation/ ... r11i1a.txt
I made an error in my previous post. It was published in July 1954. But it was in operation from the post war era, and took in aspects of the biological effects of Trinity device.
To quote salient points :
II. CONSIDERATIONS INVOLVED
Estimates of the radiological hazard to man resulting from radioactive
fallout involve considerations which may be classified as follows:
Deletions made for brevity.
C. Observed distribution of debris:
1. Near point of detonation 2. Remote from detonation
D. Behavior of fission products in physical environment:
1. Air 2. Water 3. Soil
E. Uptake and metabolism of fission products by plants. NB
F. Uptake and metabolism of fission products by man and animals. NB
G. Effects of exposure of humans to radiation:
1. Radiation from sources external to the body.
2. Radiation from radioisotopes within the body. NB
III. ORGANIZATION
Within the Atomic Energy Commission, the
Division of Biology and Medicine is responsible for effort specifically directed towards GABRIEL. NB
Such effort includes both the support of experimental and field studies
and the correlation of relevant data from a wide range of
extra-divisional activities. NB
A. Theoretical studies:
A theoretical analysis of the long range aspects of GABRIEL was made
in 1949 by Dr. Nicholas M. Smith, Jr., 1, 2 Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, at the request of the Atomic Energy Commission. Smith
concluded that Sr-90 is by far the most hazardous isotope resulting
from nuclear detonations, and that the distribution of this isotope
over large areas of the earth's surface constitutes the limiting factor
in estimating the long-range hazard from the use of a large number of
atomic bombs. (NB only true long term. Sr90 is minor fission product close in time. )
In 1952 RAND Corporation was given a contract to make an independent
study of GABRIEL, with some emphasis on the short-range aspects of
fallout. Study of this phase, later called AUREOLE, has been carried
as far as present information appears to permit, and a report has
been prepared.3
The gummed paper is here assumed to have an
efficiency of 100%, although probably it is less than 50% end quote.
See also The transfer of calcium and strontium across biological membranes; proceedings of a conference held at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, May 13-16, 1962,
by R H Wasserman; U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.; Cornell University.
Language: English Type: Book
Publisher: New York, Academic Press, 1963.
OCLC: 1489881
Subjects: Strontium in the body -- Congresses. | Calcium in the body -- Congresses. | Biological transport
See also
http://lib.bioinfo.pl/meid:18513
Tsitologiia. 2006 ;48 (7):569-77 17087148
[Effect of plasma membrane ion permeability modulators on respiration and heat output of wheat roots]
[My paper] V A Alekseeva , L Kh Gordon , N L Loseva , G G Rakhimova , A N Tsentsevitskiĭ
secrecy and 1948
In 1948 former Manhattan Project researchers pressed the AEC to declassify data from human experiments for inclusion in a history of Manhattan Project medical research as part of a group of publications called the National Nuclear Energy Series, or "NNES." In February 1948, the University of Rochester's Harold Hodge complained about classification officers gutting his chapter on uranium toxicology. "I would like," Hodge wrote, "to advance the argument that Chapter XVI does not report experiments with humans, and should never have been classified on this basis in the first place."[40]
The researchers sought a "final policy" decision on reports regarding plutonium and uranium from the Division of Biology and Medicine and its advisory committee. In a March 15 letter to a participant in the NNES project, Oak Ridge's Holland reported that it was "the feeling" of these groups that the reports should not be declassified. "While I am sure we both fully appreciate the desirability of declassification, I feel certain that the various individuals concerned will also understand and appreciate the reasons for this decision."[41] (The minutes of the March 10, 1948, ACBM meeting, themselves declassified in 1994, do not refer to the policy decision.)
The policy of classifying reports for reasons of public relations and liability was not limited to human experiments conducted under the Manhattan Project; it extended to at least one human experiment conducted under the AEC. In late 1948, Division of Biology and Medicine chief Shields Warren stated his "complete agreement" with Oak Ridge's Holland that a report on a 1948 University of California experiment with zirconium (the research has since become known as the "CAL-Z" experiment; see chapter 5) had to be kept under wraps.[42] The report had to remain secret because "it specifically involves experimental human therapeutics" and could not be rewritten in a way that "would not jeopardize our public relations."[43]
(ACHRE Report, Chapter 13: The Practice of Secrecy
The AEC Addresses Secret Manhattan Project Experiments,)
http://www.hss.energy.gov/healthsafety/ ... p13_3.html