recommend “that
People
try
to take care that
the amount of radiation that
entera their bodies should be ag small as possible.
This meana that people
stwuld atay away from areas where the acount of radiation is know toa be high
and should not aat foods grow in auah areas,
Many governments have approved
these recommendations.
Therefore, the U.3. government has established an amount of radiation for
the Ameriesan people that they should not exoaed.
‘This amount is the same as
the amount that organizations above have recommended.
They call this amount
that
and
they
have
established
a
"radiation
standard,"
the
standard
is
expressed in "millirem,®
the U.3. government has established that a person should not receive more
than $500 millirem in one year.
Also thay established that the average amount
ef radiation a man or a woman who lives in the United Statea may receive over
a 30-year period should nat be more than $000 millirem.
The U.S.
government
tries to ensure as much as possible that the amount of radiation its citizens
receive in averyday living or working is lower than the figures above.
The measurements of the
jndicated
year
than
radiation
that
this
sbout
some of
the Bikini
standard.
twice
Bikini
as
A
people made
peopla
few of
large
as
the
the
by
the
selentists
in
1978
were receiving more radiation gach
people
standard.
were
receiving
Because
this
amounta
of
amount
of
radiation was received for a short time, the harm expected will be vary small.
However, the U.S. government believed tnat it was in the best interest of tha
Bikini
people to move them so that the poasible harm that could result
fron
additional amounts of radiation will not oceur.
6
=10«
13"