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external gamma rediation, for substantial periods of time.
As shown by his affidavit,
and
his family are among those who have been exposed to high
radiation on Bikini Island over substantial time.
Meanwhile,
for reasons made clear in his affidavit, he and others
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similarly situated, have experienced a total loss of confidence in health care monitoring offered first by AEC and
now by ERDA, under the direction of Dr. Robert Conard.
Dr.
Conard is a member of the staff of the Brookhaven National
Laboratory at Upton, L.I., New York.
Brookhaven was formerly
an AEC institution and is now associated with AEC's successor
agency,
ERDA.
Clearly
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and others similarly
situated are entitled to immediate examination of the type
prayed for in the Verified Complaint.
It is equally clear
that whatever Dr. Conard's credentials may be,
and others similarly situated have no confidence in his
concern for their wellbeing.
In order that the Bikini
People may have confidence in the results of whatever evaluation
is made of those who have been placed at risk,
the evaluation
must be made by scientific personnel independent of either
4=C or ERDA as to whose selection the People of Bikini have
had some meaningful role.
This Court should order that scientific evaluation
of the type oraved for in the Verified Complaint be made
immediately available to
and his family and
ail of the persons who now reside on Bikini Island and to all
cog
th‘gx.
persons wno have been on Bikini Island for substantial
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