we see in the people in the world is due to radiation or not due to
radiation.
You can’t answer the question.
Radiation has always been here.
You can’t, you don’t know what it would be like if we did not have
radiation.
Bair:
Some scientists believe that the natural radiation in the world does
cause cancer and other diseases.
is true.
Other scientists don’t believe that this
It is an unsettled question.
Marshallese:
I feel confused but we can go ahead.
[Alice continued presentation in Marshal lese. ]
Buck:
A question is asked,
atoms go?”
“what are these?”
“How far down do these
“In this picture, we have a picture, he says how far does that
represent?”
Bill Robison:
We find the radioactive atoms distributed through the soil
column down to depths as far as 60 to 120 centimeters,
but more of it is at
the top and it gets less and less and less as you go down.
But you do see
it, it really, some of the activity that’s in the surface soil, slowly
makes its way all the way down to the ground water, the lens water.
[Alice continued presentation in Marshal lese. ]
Ma&hallese:
We are asking about the fish you mentioned now, that there is
not as much in the fish as in plants or in food-bearing
plants.
Have you
studied the bones of the fish or are you talking about the flesh of the
fish?
Robison:
We have studied the flesh and the bones both but most of what we
talked about is the flesh because that is the part that is consumed.
So in the reports we have published, however, there are data on the
concentration of these radionuclides
other organs of the fish.
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in the flesh, in the bones and in
(and)