There are three kinds of radiation that come from the earth:
1,

alpha eadiation «= the place it reaches from Where it
perhaps

3

Laches

surrounding

it

in

alr,

and

a

is made

paper

can

is

atop

short,
it

{its

movement}.
2,

beta radiation = the place it reaghes from where {it

perhaps 4 yards surrounding it

in air,

{gs made is farther,

snd things thicker -han paper,

such as plywood, are needed to stop it.
3.

gama
much

radiation = the place it reaches
farther,

from where it

perhaps 300 yards aurrounding

things that are thick and densa,

{it

in

is formed

air,

and

is very

only

those

such as cement, huge rocks, and matal,

can stop it.

:

Alpha radiation cannot paasa into the akin of people.

feta radiation can

pass through the skin amd reach about one inoh into the body.

However, things

that are radioactive may enter the body with food and air and ean reach the
blood,

bones,

lungs and other parts of the body.

radioackive change they produca alpha

When these things that are

and “pata radiation bthak can reach the

fnternal omgans.

When gama radiation hita people it goes through their bodies,

but some

of the energy of this radiation remains in their bodies.
Just

like

in

other

places

around

the

world,

alpha,

beta,

and

gamma

radiation have aceurred on Bikini Atoll from radioactive things that have been
a part of the world singe the beginning.

‘here are also tdinds of radiation

that come fran the sky bhak pass through people's bodies.
At

Bikini

amerietum,

Atoll

Beta

some

radiation

alpha
also

radiation
vomes

from

also

comes

strontium,

from

plutonium

cesium,

and

and

cobalt.

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