sean nano Semen 8S See ete, tte teseereemineetetnatitetaenatienieetatimsttinnenn wuUate GhaL Wa3 Geep Was Unable to raach people because af the thicknensa of the soil. As is shown in the picture on page 9, there ware radioactive matarials in Lhe soil, some in the placas where the roots of plants grew. their foad from the soil through their ruots. All planta get Now, as these planta get their food, some of the things that are radioactive in the soll go up the trunks to the branches and to the fruits. When people ate the fruits, they also ate the radjoactive things there. Wa can consider that these foods were radioactive, plants, these Also, if animals ate these they also ate the things thak are radioactive. animals, And if people ate they also ate the radioactive things that were jin the meat. Evan if people had cookad food that contained things that are radioactive, the radioactive things in the feod would not have fone away. Sinee there are radioactive things in the lagoon, there may also be amall amounts in the fish. If people ate fish, the amount of radioactivity they received was very gmall because of the small amounts of radioactivity in tha fish. If radioactive things entered the body, some of them have lert it hy now and some remains in it, and radiation will continue to come from those left in the body. THE POSS(BLE EFFECTS OF RADLATION IN FEOPLE'S BODIES Marshallese people have called radiation "poison." poigon works and the way radiation works are different. However, the way Usually, when poison G 1A