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DONALDSON:

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The exclusion area was 2090 miles,

So

they were close,
The Shunkotsu Maru came that close in

naw

was interesting, you my have noticed in The Saturday Evening

ow

1954 and they didn't seem to be too concerned about italthoushit

the only one that didn't have a mask and the Japanese accused

bo

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EISENBUD:

thought I really ought to take care of myself.

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Post picture that shows m= on the deck of the ship, that I was

me of being a little too cavalier about radicactivity,

They

DUNHAM: You were grandstanding! [Laughter]
EISENBUD:

There was nothing I could do about it.

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didn't bring any along and they didn't have any for m.
DONALDSON:
I hope.

I'm about at the puneh j1ine of my story,

But at the conclusion of the meetings there was to be-

@ press announcement and the placed swarmed with news paper
people;

it just literally swarmed.

cameras, newspaper photographers.

They had television
The place just buzzed,

The

prepared statement was handed to the news paper people saying
that we were in complete agreenent and that the levels of
radiation were such-and-such and such-and-such,.

have seen the expression on these mn,
great amounts," they would say.

"No,

And you should

"But there are not
These are the findings

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of the joint report,"

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and about an inch and a half appeared and I don't think any

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And we searched the papers the next day

of the footage was used on television.
BRUES:

Lauren, should we set up the projector.

You

wanted to show a picture before lunch,
DONALDSON:
CONARD:
make,

Yes,

I had

one final staterent I wanted to

In regard to the Rongelap body burden situation, it

turns out that none of these isotopes exceeded 5 to 10 per

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cent of the MPC in the people,

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higher values for the strontium-90, to 20 per cent in sore

The children had slightly

STalicre weaned

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