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Recominended 

 Activities and Research Tastes Annual Cost 



(Thousands) 



/lEC Support 

 19S0 1961 1962 



Control and Ildnitoring 



Engineering studies 



International coordination. 



350 

 20 



324 



281 



-10 



Estuarine and Coastal Studies 



Estuarine physical studies. 1,400 



Coastal physical studies... 1,400 



Research in the Open Ocean.. 1,400 



Sedimentation Processes 



Residence times 134 



Inorganic transfer 350(1) 



Effects of the Biosphere 



General problems 600 



Elemental analyses 100 



Ecological studies of 



disposal areas 238 



Effects of Radiation......... 100 



Biological Field Experiments. 100. 



Large Open-Sea Tests 400 - 2,000(2) 



TOTAL $ 6,192(3) 



1,598 2,388 3,630 



(1) $155,000 for succeeding years. 



(2) This item excluded from total because estimates are 



considered too uncertain. 



(3) $6,007,000 for succeeding years excluding Open-Sea Tests, 



It is evident that the AEC through its Division of Biology 

 and Medicine is seriously attacking all aspects of the research 

 needed to understand the effects of introduction of radioactive 

 elements into the ocean. Research carried out with their sup- 

 port should ultimately give the necessary background for suc- 

 cessful prediction of these effects. The support given to re- 

 search institutions v;ill also create a body of scientists able 

 to guide the national and international efforts to eliminate 

 hazards connected v^ith introduction of radioactivity into the 



