they knew they couldnt gave radiated salmon, but they created Hanford after all. They knew it was toxic ... (Muller 1927... xrays cause genetic damage) and yet they built and blew up bombs, lots of bombs... what madness Allison: I’d forgotten the name of the man, but I know the Army was very fearful that we might make the water in the Columbia River radioactive or do something to it such that it would damage the salmon in the river. And they said this would be the end of the uranium project if it killed the salmon in the river. So, we had young salmon here in tanks and we were testing them with radioactive materials seeing how much they could stand. Then of course there was a big section on what we called Health Physics and still call Health Physics. That is, we knew there would be levels of radioactive which had never been seen before. How much radioactivity could a person stand without danger? This was really not known in those early days, although there was some data from the exposure to X-rays manhattanprojectvoices.org/oral-histories/samuel-k-allisons-interview
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