reasonably safe and all right.

I have a question about a person who is not

from that island, and that is not his home but if he were to come to that
island and eat food from that island, what is that scenario?

Ray:

If he comes to that island to visit for a short period of time and

eats food from that island, in general we can say that that should have no
adverse effect anywhere in the Marshalls, a few days.

And as I said to

Senator Ishmael John this morning, although we think that the people of

Enewetak should not take their food continuously and regularly from Enjebi,

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of course if they have a food shortage, there is good food there and so
long as that does not become a big part of their diet, that should present
no problem.
Ray:

Again, except for Bikini island, the northern Rongelap islands, and

to some extent Enjebi, except for those few, al? the places that were
surveyed, no limitation at all.

You should not be concerned about

visiting, eating, living in any of those places.
Buck to Marshallese:

Marshallese:

I am not sure I understand it.

All right, it sounds like, it seems like we have had a

certain amount of radioactivity in our islands as around the world which is
natural and has always been there.

Now, you in your technology have

developed a way of producing additional radioactivity and yet you have
brought it to our islands to experiment and test, and so it is almost like

could we, could you be more immune, to say, harm from it since it is your
product than we because it's new to us?
measles.

I think it is sort of like

We may have a threshold where we can and not be susceptible

because we have had that all along and yet a population that had not had
that would be real susceptible to harm from measles because they don't have
any immunity to it.

Now does that work in the case of radiation?

In other

words would you have been less effected, because it is your product than
we, and it was not our product?

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