Word: strontium
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...defense). Public backing for Stevenson came from ten Caltech scientists (including Speech Adviser Harrison Brown). They were promptly rebuked by Caltech President Lee DuBridge for their "partisan stand." Sixty-two scientists from the Atomic Energy Commission's Brookhaven Laboratory edged in with a notation that the dangers of Strontium 90 were "a valid subject for further discussion and study"-as indeed they...
...estimates of strontium yield from a given fission energy are low by a factor of four, due to the use of older figures; recent, more accurate figures were not available at the time the report was issued...
Adlai Stevenson has recently taken a forthright stand on stopping the tests of multi-megaton weapons. His proposal has been called "dangerous" and "visionary" by the Republicans. In particular, they have scoffed at the threat of radioactive strontium contamination. Even Senator Kefauver is quoted by the New York Times (Sunday, Oct. 21, p. 55) as conceding that the tests could be continued for thirty years at the present rate without damage. However, Ralph Lapp, the eminent nuclear physicist, has recently found an error of a factor of forty in the rate of accumulation of this deadly poison. In an article...
...concentration of strontium in bones is confused with the concentration in soil. This error contributes a factor...
...extent of 15 per cent of the maximum permissible dose. Dr. Lapp pleads for criticism of his conclusions and I am sure we all hope that he is mistaken. If he is right, there is no sane choice but to stop the testing of large atomic weapons immediately. Strontium 90 is no joke--if the tests are continued much longer it could cause many millions to die of bone cancer...