* Dr. Crownover writes: “It is possible that an unnamed Brazilian village is this high due to unfortunate geology. For instance, there is a spot in Africa that is a naturally occurring ‘reactor.’ Another possibility is that industry has blessed the village with enriched waste of some sort. I sat next to a person on a plane many years ago who described himself as a ‘historical geologist.’ His career was devoted to predicting where the toxic wastes from past mining/smelting operations had ended up; for instance where a slow river bend a hundred miles downstream in the watershed might have collected high concentrations.”—One might hope that there is indeed such a village. Then any nuclear ideologue with sufficient pep could pooh-pooh my 41.1-micro reading in Okuma as being merely three times “normal background.”