Ray: I understand and I think I would ask Dr. Bair to comment on that. Bair: Radiation is not like measles or any other disease. affects all people exactly the same. Radiation It doesn't make any difference whether they live here, live in the United States, live in Japan, live in Europe. Everybody is affected the same. We are not more immune or more sensitive than you people. (Buck: I wondered if his, if the implication was the distance from that, but he says no that wasn't in his question.) Ray: I understood it to be a question about a developed immunity. And there is no evidence, I think that any of us are aware of, that radiation causes an immunity to further radiation as would be the case with some of the chemical contaminants or as might be the case with measles or one of the diseases that, one of the communicable diseases that brings on a natural immunity. I am aware of no evidence, no suggestion, even, that radiation, that one dose of radiation confers an immunity toward future doses. , Marshallese: Page 52 Ailuk atoll. southern part of it. One of these islands down here in the He says this isn't really a question I have, I am just reporting that that island is a place where lots of birds gather and there is vegetation, and last April in a sense of mysteriously something happened, and only about a tenth of the natural vegetation is now still growing. Everything else has just died, and then as a consequence the birds also are dead and you can, the stench even of their secretions and so forth, is very pronounced. And he says we have no explanation for what ha’ caused this and, it is, we are concerned about it and that is just relatively recently that has happened. Robison: Which island was that, just for my own interest? ent Ce ,sueh bY 40 ®