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(1)
There is a need for medical screening and
comprehensive health care.
In on2 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
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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 these atolls
and there is simply no way to remove it.
It can be
studied and understood, however, and the information
derived can be usedto estimate the risk to the people
and develop any protective measures which appear to be
necessary.
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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.
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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
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