St. Goorga = 10 PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED health. "And this pathology is almost certainly due to radiation," ho adds. anodoa we a-13l roacned thodr thyrolds not in milke-thoy don't have cowg on Rongolap--~ vere ; 3 CO 8, ers Col 4 _ Palette} 4 ay wu . "he the roolo. A thoir drink:ng wator, WoCoemalwsy caught from ; Saye ‘ : ’ Ve “bbws tn 4 de chy Peas es Anyep matt , Sy TAR penn Wacrina “+ heovy rainfall the night of> the shot MOOSS. twashe tho -fLallout—dewae" Veg ae eee A > the hard thyroid nodules wore at first thought to be malignant, but when 427 pt weve removed and examined microscopically they proved to be benign. &.. so was diagnosed last year, in a \7-ycar-old ¢) one Gefinite casa of thyroid Ra . “ongelsap woman named o>. Conard sees a statistical clincher in 200 Rongelap people who were away from their home isiand hk : CNN a; rae Sou Batre when tne bomb custed it with radioactivity nov a ‘single: one--has-“developed by ota. ey : So thyroid nodules. Dye — a tne uN “Pe Sa yroM ss. Thea no we ff? b see @ Bate. ne . Now ivnmuct-to-omphasizecd—shas ; re He iy aged Menge, tee aceye orove “Shot Bravo" caught its firing experts way off base by producing twice as powerful a blast~-15 megatons--as they had . must be noted that it predicted. And itywas several hundred times bigger than anything set off at Las Vegas. . a SEoie a see among _o & tee wna Tact taste However, vo. its effects included not only delayed thyroid impairment but such immediate afflictions ag nausea, skin burns and ulcers, logs of hair, and:proLongod-enemiae There has also been a slight growth retardation in some eswen mouse of the boys No One’ foresees any such dire consequences from the rolatively low level fallout from the Nevada weapons tests, or from peaceful atomic activities. Nevortheless, the St. George experionce has put both atomic scientists and physici on sharper suard than ever before. Dr. Lee ©. Farr, who is both a pediatrician av the University of Texas, in Houston, said recently: "I think we have to assume vhero is a relationship between the St. George findings and radiation. trinx we can at this point rule out anything. temporary disturbance, all well and good. I don't If the thyroid condition is a But this kind of statistic in an epidemiological survey simply catnot be shrugged off." | Dr. Farr was for many years the medical director of the Brookhaven - PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED 7; a Be, and an expert on atomic effocts, a professor of muclear and experimental medicine