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Meaning of Radiation at Bikini Atoll,"' and a-decumenin

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documents

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of those studies, please?

files.

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review and

summarize

the

conclusions

The conclusions of these studies are based

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solely onradiation doses and do not takcubateues other

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factors
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future

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include

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statements

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radiation exposure

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in any

the

judgments

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people.

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limits.

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time.

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there is only an increase in the accumulation of information

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