TY  - JOUR
T1  - FRee isotopes
AU  - Sisson MA
Y1  - 1949/06/04
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1949.02900400048023
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 494
EP  - 494
VL  - 140
IS  - 5
N2  - To the Editor:— 
    Students of the infiltration technic will be pleased at the latest evidence of how even the most erudite will fall for the Grecian gift.In The Journal for April 16, page 1084, appears the heading "Expand Free Radioisotope Program." There then follows an explanation that the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission has announced that all isotopes are now free.However, in the next paragraph it states that to finance the new program for its first year of operation $450,000 has been allocated. This is just for the first year. Time passes rapidly. Estimates are often inadequate. Is it not unreasonable to envisage that this free program is going to require allocations of perhaps $10,000,000 in the next ten years? Since when, then, is it free?!It is readily granted that this program cannot be conducted or entirely subsidized by private enterprise. The Atomic Energy Commission is doing
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1949.02900400048023
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900400048023
ER  -