Trip Report -19- Record of Utirik Meeting, February 10, 1979, Saturday Sd Where is our $100,000 compensation slated for community projects? fa HUB: I'S Where is per diem money? Jo Hugh Pratt thanked the people for the nice welcome and introduced the team, Again showed people a diagram accompanied by a lecture on the structure of the U.S. Government. He told them that BNL was outside the Federal government and that BNL makes recommendations to DOE based on their trips to islands. He said BNL doesn't have money. All they can do is to ask for money for the people. HUB: Will ask Judy Knapp when I get to Kwajalein. I reviewed the whole situation, 19 Pratt: Gave letter from Conard to Magistrate to read. It was even more embarrassing this time because the Magistrate couldn't read the Marshallese and he gave it to someone else who stumbled terribly over the Marshallese version. A. Q. Why do some Rongelap people get $25,000 for not having surgery but are taking medicine, and Utirik people do not. Pratt: Rongelap got 175R, Utirik got 14R. Rongelap people were away from their homes a long time. Many Rongelapese had problems and damaged glands even though there was no surgery. They got $25,000 but since the people of Utirik got a lower dose, there were no damaged glands although there have been nodules and cancer found. True. In many unexposed you found nodules, operated but people got no money. A. Pratt: The problem is the the U.S. Congress gives compensation. We (BNL) want to pay for all radiation-related problems. Thyroid disease exists throughout the world. The BNL trip is to find which of those is related to radiation. Q. What about those with cancer. A. Pratt: Q. Before the Americans came there were no thyroid problems. Many had cancer even before the bomb went off. Cay the bomb many problems. My son had three operations, After