within the United States and $100,000,000 for each incident outside the United States (USCA 42 S 2210 (e) ). An example of the actual cost of such an incident can be found in the AEC publication "Operational Accidents and Radiation Exposure Experience Within the...1943-1970," "1, (Fall, 1971): FIRE-ROCKY FLATS Golden, Colorado, May 11, 1969 $45,000,000. The AEC's costliest fire, and largest property loss incident, occurred at a plant which produces plutonium parts for ‘Nuclear weapons.,,"Financial loss for the damage to building and contents includes the cost of decontamination. There were no lost-time injuries to personnel," Other incidents ran from $4 to $1 million and it was noted that ''Few AEC accidents/typically three per year,..result in a loss of $50,000 or more; however, these infrequent occurrences have cumulatively inflicted about 90 percent or more of the aggregate loss suffered to date." The Rocky Flats figure represented 56 percent of the claims up to 1970, RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE 1954 INCIDENT For the record, there is no doubt in the mind of the Special Joint Committee that the United States Government was responsible for what has happened to the people of Rongelap and.Utirik, . This was clearly spelled out in its previous report to the Congress of Micronesia in 1973, There also is no question in the minds of the people of ~26- FEO EMSRSRSNS APE SN Te AOBa aS : mo neg cA ver tsp we tat ey pe a ne - = + eS a Tae rerey se Eb geet ea ae ; ~~ LPTsFEE “ ST aE ge: poe im PR thes Bee aeeren Te Ee Ys x