which is deep,

At Bikini cesium and strontium are the radioactive thinga that

produce the highest amount of radiation.

On the northern fslands of Enewetak

bhere was more plutonium and americium than at Bikini and the U.S. Government

could sorape some of them off because they were near the surface.

Howaver,

they could not remove the strontium and cesium because they are daaper in the
soil.

At Bikini

the U.S.

Government did pick up all -serap metal

scrub growth before the people returned in 1970.

and

removed

The serap metal was moved to

deep water in Lhe ocean and lagoon.

The map on page _ shows where the radioactive things are ak the Bikini
Atoll.
things.

We gea that all of the islanis in the Bikini

atoll have radicactive

Next to the map of Bikini is a map of Enewetak Atoll showing where

the radioactive things are at this atoll.

Here we seq that the amounts of

radioactive things are smaller than at Bikini.

The islands in the south of

the Enawetak Atoll hava a very small amount of radioactivity.

THE WAYS RADIATION ENTERED PEQPLE'S BODTES

People received radiation from radioactive things at Bikini Atoll while
thay

lived

penetrated

there

in 2 ways.

people's

skin

and

1

= radiation

entered

the

that came

body;

2

=

from the

the

things

soil and
that

are

radioactive in some of the foods that people ate, in soe of the water they
drank, or in the air they breathed produced radiation inside the bady.
The

radiation

that

came

up out of the

cobalt that was near the surface.

soi]

oame

from

the

caesium

and

Part of the radiation from the aesjum and

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