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Show is proven , struction. j 'For this reason the radio- j activity should not receive j consideration as a hazard in j this project,'. There are some real reasons reas-ons to base apprehensons on the MX and one doesn't have to seize upon non-lssues non-lssues to make the point. ! Most of the fallout from J the open air atomic testing has decayed into three ele- j ments of any significance, cesium, strontium and plu-tonium. Two Utah radiation experts ex-perts say there is no need for concern that construction construc-tion of the MX missile system sys-tem in the deserts of Utah and Nevada will stir up dangerous dan-gerous amounts of residual fallout. The fallout was deposited in the 1950s and 1960's by atomic bomb tests in Nevada. Radiological health expert Blaine Howard says that decaying de-caying radioactivity in the desert soil is so minute that it should not receive consideration con-sideration as a hazard in the MX project. The issue was brought up during public hearings on the Air Force DEB on the proposed weapons system . Opponents of the multi billion bil-lion dollar rocket complex said the construction of 4,600 missile shelters and roads connecting them would stir up desert dust containing the potentially deadly fallout. But Howard said the small quantity of radioactivity in the soil would not be a problem prob-lem even if the limit for nuisance dust were exceeded by 10,000 times during con- |