A TROPICAL RAIN FOREST
A STUDY OF IRRADIATION AND ECOLOGY
AT EL VERDE, POERTO RICO
H.T.ODUM
UNITED STATES ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION
PROJECT REIN FOREST (1963-1967)
The project consist in using gama irradiation (50,000 R, 500 R is enoff to kill), for 20 month at the time, to irradiat a portion of a rain forest called el verde (el llunce).They gatherd infected spesimen(plants and daed animals)sow they can chek for mutations.El llunce is a mauntein, the radiation may have effected some people that lived billow the mautein. I'm a residen of Puerto Rico and the AEC & the US goverment never told the people that they were doing this caind of experiment.