- (1) There is a need for medical screening and comprehensive health care. In one way the medical needs of the people varies in direct proportion to the amount of the exposure, for the reason that the health effects are directly proportional to the dose. In another way, however, even those who have or will experience low to exceedingly low doses, can still have worries and fears and can be the object of unrealistic fear on the part of others, as lepers were once feared. Thus, the people at Utirik, or the people at Enewetak, for example, may need medical screening in an effort to establish the absence of any serious problem. (2) As a result of the nuclear weapons tests, there is radiation in the environments of each of theseatolls and there is simply no way to remove it. It can be studied and understood, however, and the information derived can be used to estimate the risk to the people and develop any protective measures which appear to be necessary. This is the means by which the radiation will be discovered and understood before it finds its way into the human being, so that measures can be instituted to reduce or prevent exposure. - From time to time it will be necessary to take (3) all that is known about the presence and transport of the radionuclides in the environment, to put that together SOS ot mata Lge ro. ate eeortTK wa tare “eat oot et te ee “oe ery oe dee . rote nF oe