among tha people who have raceived radiation, they would be no different from
those that appear in other people around tha world.
that a radioactive elemant
The scientists have found
that aame from the atomic bomb testa asn cause
canoer in tha throat (in the thyroid).
This radioactive- material remains only
& few months, 30 that it is gone from Bikini Atoll today.
Among the paople of any country there are children born with diseases and
infirmities
that
are
inherited,
Sone of
malformations, mental retardation, eto.
these are:
deafness,
blindness,
These kinds of defects occurred in
the Marshall Islands before the atomic bomb tests and they continue to oeeur
today.
In a commmity in which people have received radiation, thare might be
am increase in the nunber of ohildren bom with defects.
THE WAYS THAT SCLENTISTS KNOW THE AMOUNT OF RADIATION A PERSON RECELVES
Everybody
in
the world has some radioactive materials
in
their body.
Peaple cannot know by themselves how much radiation ia in any thing or in
their badiles because they cannot see fk, hear it, taste it, amell it, or feel
jk.
Only instruments can raeveal
things
that
measuring
are
the
radioactive in
radiation
that
this.
There are
instruments
the soil and in food;
aomes
from
the
soil.
for measuring
there are those for
Scientists
use
these
{natrumenta to gat information in order to be able to estimate the amount of
radiation
that
people
can
raceive
if
they
live
in
an
area
containing
radioactiva things.
The picture at
the
left shows the
instrument
that
asctentints
use
to
measure the anount of gamma radiation that comes from radioactive materials in
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