Robison:

That’s a good question.

We wanted to be able to put an entire

diet together to estimate the dose at every atoll.

Nowwe

weren’t able to

collect turtles or turtle eggs at every atoll, but the turtles we have been
able to analyze throughout the Marshall Islands, all are very similar and
all the other doses or all the other radionuclides concentrations we see at
the outer atolls, Mejit, Wotho, Ailuk, Likiep are all just about the same.
And, so what we did was take the average from the all the turtles we were
able to analyze and use that at an atoll if we were unable to collect them
at that specific atoll.

But we see no difference between the turtles we

have been able to analyze wherever we get them.

Butweweren’t

able to

get

them every place, but what we did was take the average value from what
we’ve seen throughout the Marshalls and then we used that at every, at an
atoll if we were unable to collect them just so we would have a complete
diet and we didn’t leave anything out.

Marshallese:

deBrum:

Thank you.

Then maybe we can assume that some day when a turtle comes over on

Mejit to lay eggs, the people catch that turtle and eat it, they are likely
to absorb the same amount of count as stated in the book.

Robison:

Right.

Marshallese:

He said that there seems to be great differences between the

amounts of radionuclides
the book

I see that

in the different places but he says, look here in

the one at Likiep is a little bit different, has a

little different specifications

than the one that you gave to Mejit, and so

he says that maybe that was a male.

Robison:

Buck:

Maybe that, what?

A male.

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