  It is argued that the upturn observed in heavy nuclei to iron ratios as
measured in the ATIC experiment could be understood within the model of closed
galaxy with embedded local regions containing the sources of CR (Peters,
Westergaard, 1977). The universal upturn near the energies of 200-300 GeV/n in
the spectra of abundant primary nuclei is also predicted by this model, but it
also predicts the source spectral index to be near 2.5.
