Cowan: Can you through bioassay determine if there is abnormally high levels of iodine-131? Bair: Cowan: Bair: You could do that, yes. Well, wouldn’t that be a probability? That would increase the probability that it was caused by radiation but not assure that it was caused by radiation. Cowan: Bair: But it would give a probability? But it would increase the probability. (Background conversation - Alice and other voices. Alice was trying to translate the above exchange into Narshallese. ) Bair: You won’t find radioactive iodine in a cancerous thyroid because the thyroid, if cancer was caused by radiation, the thyroid would have had the iodine many years ago and now it is gone. cancer and measure radio-iodine recently. (and) You cannot look at a thyroid in it unless the person has received it If that is the case it was not caused, the tumor was not caused by radiation. Phillip Muller: I have a question. I think I heard you clearly say that iodine is the cause of the thyroid, possibly caused by high iodine. said that life span of iodine is relatively short. You Do we have any explanation as to why some of these thyroid cases have taken long before they developed? For instance they didn’t happen the same year that fallout took place but relatively sometime thereafter. F@: That is the point Dr. Bair was making. your question translated first. 13 Do you have an explanation? Maybe you had better have