High Commissioner -r.. > ~ .4’ 10/29/80 , United States say, “Here gress, ;;:;::; Robison) on third ~(Johnny A(8. We must if to of other through pursue, necessary, be decay a its DOE and courts. ourselves, with DOI tile won’t U.S. Con! matter. discrepancy of the for this between the graphs on page 5 and page cesium. in the grclund (graph, page 5) 30 yars. Cesium in the body SC) tile body eliminates 100 clays. in : Johnson) the Cesium after amount on rate and money,” courts appears the : the the There Z9 ~(B. is and : , Congress decays at the rate of one-half its of oneis eliminated at the rate cesium much faster than it decays “ own. Do thoseBikinians their who left tlikitii two years ago have any ccsium in bodies? Robison): Their cesium level has dropped have ccsium very quickly, and there is very-little left. Q: Of danger A(i3. Rob son) : of Bair): The thirty three years, cdusi:g,,,de,ath Kili, y- thirty in in years, thirty the 0 ! United years, United left now? immed ate The re is Is s in their there sickness ckness, no sickness in the bodies, but there in people is in their is a we there afiy bodies small or now? risk have l~arrn seen, over and a long the ri~k small. of people years. times in be 1700 and is get 0.06 thei+ the very number would thirty no time. is the last another there bodies is of harm who thtiir There period A(Dr. those in in t!~e the increased thi.rtv years. If ~A .: f 1300 births deaths i 24 of from the millirems of will will ther~. w~re occur One result natural 550 of the per .zrnd re~eived there States wou.l+,be average Uni”ted States a 0.3 to rate , which 1.0 diseases II-! ~i~~l;~ much “ In r~>}<lt ~fiin’{~uded ~ive~,)~~ ,,,. ,m,, :bas-ed-a ,,.,. ;,, raciiation..over addi-tional is L?o background ca’nccr higher death$. than ~ili’$. ,)’ ,, ‘)(,, l#~~people had remained on Bikini,, t-h~~rad iation-chxi$j wou],d h~ve,,corl,,., l,~r+ tinued, anf~ thd.’,~i,sl< of,~cancer wou”ld have increased. lf~people,~ ., f! z.,, G~vc{rimcnt starlclar-d),~# ~recelveA$dOO hill irerns (and this i+>,, the U.S. ,> to 2.0 standa~~flis . !/.k& additional 7.0 years, What additional cieaths percent rni 11 it-ems cancer the risk this means .U.5._:.,s.tandar+ cancer .nq~i,,l,OO receivesA15,6!30 ,, ,’ . ~ 0.5 safe, in thirty deaths. thirty years total every year, but that a~rlsk,:; the it ~’’k,~$,n ~he ri~>k, increases by is 5000 is 0!{ 10 receive increased to receive millirems # i to- thirty from cancer. 1 irems, the For if a inillircms. 500 1.1} in .,p-~:~x.,t~~il:ty.y~d.r~y ~be feel it is not acceptable ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘~’-, rafi}ation ,..,, .j tl~ me&&&&&+’reG &we50,000 to 23 additional deaths ard-per year, is 500.mil jntake person were to rec(2i.ve,.,15,000:rili lliren15 risk wou-ld be ”l.4”’’to’-0.0.Scientists 500,,hmiliircms >years. .be’’”:,~,~,ec$edl~ is year~~, A~~d if to 5.0 would increase is that i~h~ for could there , next cancer. that amounts to 600,,m~ll ircmsy ,1-ivir~g-,:!? xi ] i .’+;(JLI]’~, /’@.*.*t. “This figure’.n~ds to ‘+’7 : 0C.2 ~,~, deaths caused by ~a.n.cerP Ii= FOQ.eJ-~Qn~ o~,24 cancer-re~,~~ed deaths overall. States in Bikioians,y+.t’, in the from radiation times increase would al 1 causes, deaths three population years.fl about~,:j,~O 20 has that next t!lirty cancer. about Marsiralls ‘w’e believe 8 some ‘