which is deep.
At Bikini caesium and strontium are the radioactive things that
produce the highest amount of radiation.
On the northern {fslands of Enewetak
there was more plutonium and americium than at Bikint and the U.S. Government
could sorape gome of them off beasuse they were near tho surface.
Hownver,
they could not remove Che atrontium and oesium because thay are daaper in the
soil.
At
Bikini
the U.S.
Government did pick up all
scrub growth before the people returned in 1970.
sarap metal
and
removed
The serap métal was moved to
deep water in the ocean and lagoon.
The map on page _ shows where the radioactive things are at the Bikint
Atoll.
We gee that all of the islands in the Bikini
things.
atoll have radioactive
Next to the map of Bikini is 4a map of Enewetak Atoll showing where
the radioactive things are at this atoll.
Here we see that the amounts of
radioactive things are smaller than at Bikini.
The
islands in the south of
the Enewetak Atoll have a vary small] amount of radioactivity.
THE WAYS RADIATION ENTERED PEOPLE'S BODTES ©
People received
they
lived
penetrated
there
radiation
in
people's
2
from radioactive things at
ways.
skin
and
radioactiva in some of the
1
=
cadiation
entered
the
that
body;
foods that people ate,
came
2
=
Bikini
from
the
Atoll
while |
the
aoil
and
things
that
are
in some of the water they
drank, or in the air they breathed produced radiation inside the body.
The
cobalt
radiation
that
came
up
that was near the surface.
out
of
the
soil
same
from
the
Part of tne radiation from the
aesium
and
cesium and