High
Commissioner
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>
~
.4’
10/29/80
,
United
States
say,
“Here
gress,
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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
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death$.
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l#~~people
had
remained
on Bikini,,
t-h~~rad
iation-chxi$j
wou],d
h~ve,,corl,,., l,~r+
tinued,
anf~ thd.’,~i,sl<
of,~cancer
wou”ld have
increased.
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(and
this
i+>,, the U.S.
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to
2.0
standa~~flis
.
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additional
7.0
years,
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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.
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the
For
if
a
inillircms.
500
1.1}
in
.,p-~:~x.,t~~il:ty.y~d.r~y
~be
feel
it
is not acceptable
‘
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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.
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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
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/’@.*.*t.
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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
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