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WARREN:
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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,
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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
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by the time they were moving back to Ronge lap he couldn't tell
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the difference between the comparison “af unexposed people and
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the exposed people, the level of body burden.
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got bacic to Rongelap, however, there was a rather sudden and
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marked increase in their body burden because of the residual
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contamination on the Island,
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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
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to get a whole-body counter out to Rongelap.
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real endeavor to get that thing out on Rongelap Island, but
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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.
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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:
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Were the fish levels higher in the Rongelap
area than in the area to which the natives had been evacuated?
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We finally gave that to the Navy and had to get
another one.
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The first one
DONALDSON:
Yes,
There was no fallout down at
Ma juros,
CONARD:
They were in a relatively clean@hord Warren
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