8.
How many radiosotive things are in the dust in the air that people will
braathe,
Even with all of this
{information
{t
{ts difficult
ta know the amount of
radiation a person will receive because we do not know how much of each kind
. of food each person eats.
than other fooda.
Some foods have mora of things that are radiosackive |
A person who eats more of the foods that have more of the
things that are radioactive will racaive more radiation.
A person who eats
smaller amounts of these foods will recatve leas radiation,
WHY THE PEOPLE WERE ALLOWED TO RETURN TO BIKINI ATOLL
In
19_— the Bikini people asked the U.S. government to permit them to
return to their homeland.
the
tests
and
the
The U.S. government cleaned up the scrap left from
gaientists measured
aoils, water, and fish.
the amounts of radioactivity
in
the
From this information they estimated the amounts of
radiation that the people might recaiva when they returned.
estiuates. ware lower than the standard,
the people were allowed
Beeause these
to return in
1970.
In these estimates measureuonts of radioactive things in foodstuffs were |
nut
possible
on
the
islanda
because
foad-bearing
trees were
not
present.
Estimates of the amount of radioactive things in fruits from thease trees were
made
from information from other places around thw world.
Beeause the sojls
of tha Bikini Atoll (and other atolls) area different from soil at thesa other
places,
it
anticipated.
was
found
that
the
fruits
contained more
cesium
than was
In addition, estimates of the amounts of food from these trees.
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