Marshallese from Wotho: We from Wotho are glad to be in this meeting and thank you for the report you have prepared for, not only our atoll, but other of the northern Marshalls atolls and I just am wanting to give my greetings. This is the first time for me to raise any, to speak and so I want to say that the Senator from Wotho and myself do have some questions we would like to raise. Marshallese from Wotho: In this supplementary sheet, we notice that the number of, that is given for the yearly amount of radiation for Wotho would \ be 30. We, our question is, does this 30 refer to a single year or is this 30 beginning from 1978 to the present? Is that a four-year period that that 30 represents or is that a one-yearperiod? Ray: That represents the largest amount for the person who might have the most radiation in any one year. Marshallese from Wotho: In the highest year. So, now, thank you for that reply and now if I understand it, then, from 1978 a person could receive 30 and then ‘79, 30, and '80, 30, and '81, 30, '82, 30--that would mean that a person probably then has 150. Ray: Is that, is that, am I to understand that? Well, you are right that it is accumulating, but the 30 is the highest year. several means. That's in the 1978 year. It is diminishing slowly, by It's going down each year, so it will not be 30 the second year, it will be something slightly less than that and it is dropping off. So that over the 30-year period it adds up to only 200. If it stayed at 30 for that 3G years it would be 900 but it's dropping off. Marshallese from Wotho: Ray: What is it, what is it that keeps decreasing? The strength of the radiation is decreasing as a natural process. decays much the same way as a fire dying down. Ray: Let me continue Alice, please? 34 pot arcane It