~: I think that these numbers will have a great deal more meaning when we get further back in the text. I don’t want to turn off a question, but there is a lot of explanation in what Alice is going to go through that will help us to, help answer your question. Perhaps a little later in the time we will come back to it but I think it would be a lot easier to comprehend and a lot easier for us to address after we develop. .. Marshallese: I am still not quite sure why we need to go further into the book when we are right here at this place and we can compare Ailinginae has a 2 and Bikini has these other numbers. (and) So it seems appropriate to address this question right now. Q: Well, certainly we can, can pursue it now.’ I was just suggesting that what comes after this helps to explain those numbers. Buck: I will tell you what I am really asking. accuracy of the numbers. It seems like maybe Bikini then should probably be a 6 or a 7 rather than a 4. Bair: I am questioning the I am just wondering that. The number 4 means the radioactive contamination level . is above a certain The level 3 is another range, level 2 is another range and the level 1 is the lowest range. So when you have an island or an atoll that says 4 it has a range of values which may (be) extend upwards. know how high because I don’t have all the data. I don’t Do you understand what I am saying? Marshallese: So the 4, does the 4 represent acceptable doses? And if that is the case does that mean it is safe? ~: The 4 represents an area which has rad. ation contamination certain level. above a We have not yet talked about what that means in terms of dose or what it means in terms of living at that place. There are other things beside the simple number of what the radiation level is on a particular island. There is the diet of people, there is the location from 8