* 247 grass on it, tw WARREN: uw We'tve purposely omitted one of the prime areas of interest in the over-all environrent and Bob has some data on the whole-body burden of the Rongelap people that we might bring in now, with your permission, wow ca ee ere DONALDSON: onrn WwW _ Very interesting. CONARD: Well, yesterday I mentioned that after about Six months, a year or two, the badyburdens of the Rongelap people dropped down to barely detectabie levels and 10 by the time they were moving back to Ronge lap he couldn't tell 12 the difference between the comparison “af unexposed people and 12 the exposed people, the level of body burden. 13 got bacic to Rongelap, however, there was a rather sudden and 14 marked increase in their body burden because of the residual 15 2 contamination on the Island, + 17 18 a As soon as they This came about prinarily through eating pandanus, which had sone strontium-90 and cesium-137 and, strangely enough, from eating fish, the zinc-65 in the fish, as Lauren pointed out, got in the people since fish is 19 20 21 to get a whole-body counter out to Rongelap. 22 real endeavor to get that thing out on Rongelap Island, but 23 2h 25 26 27 28 one of their mainstays in their diet and we then were able was a big monster that weighed about 21 tons and that was a we did. 33 So we wound up by using 2 shatter shield type, more portable type of whole-body counter consisting of lead prick, The first slide will give you an idea of what that looks like. UPTON: | Were the fish levels higher in the Rongelap area than in the area to which the natives had been evacuated? 31 32 We finally gave that to the Navy and had to get another one. 29 30 The first one DONALDSON: Yes, There was no fallout down at Ma juros, CONARD: They were in a relatively clean@hord Warren DOEBJUCLA Zy