that would be eaten by the people have since bean found to be low.
Thus, when
tha coconut trees and other fuod-ebearing plants reached an age where fruits
became’ available, this oagium was transferred to the bodiea of the people,
When these high radiation lavels were found in the people in 1978, it was
realited
that
the
initial
estimates of the amount of radiation
were
low
and
the people were removed from the atoll.
DIFPERENCES BETWEEN BIKINI ATOLL AND ENEWETAK ATOLL
Some people wonder why the U.3. government. did not clean up Bikini Atell
the way they did Enawetak Atoll.
The reason is that the atom bomb tests had different affects on the two
atolls.
1.
Same of the differences are given below.
The northern islands on the Enéwetak Atoll
had much more plutonium and
americtium in the soila than doea Bikini Atoll.
This was because of the
difference in the types of tests at the two atolls.
It was noted earlier
that plutonium and americium remain radioactive for many, many years and
that
the
plutonium and
Therefore,
removed
americium remain near
tha
surface
gome of the plutonium and americium at
of
the
so4]
Enewetak could be’
by shallow scraping without destroying the island.
This maant
that when the atrontium and ceaium disappeared, the island could be uagad.
Without
Never
the oleanup,
have
been
used,
the northern
However,
islands of the Enewetak Atoll
the
strontium
and
the
cesium on
northern islands of Enewetak Atoll] remaj{ned aven after the cleanup.
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would
the