Gwuldsu
Oat
was
deep
was
unable
ta
raach
people
because
of
the
thickness
of
the sail.
As ia shown in the picture on page 9, there ware radioactive matarials in
Lhe soll,
some in the placas where the roots of planta grew.
their food from the soil through their ruets.
food,
All
planta gat
Now, as thene planta get their
some of the things that are radioactive in the soil 0 up thea trunks to
the branches and to the fruits,
When people ate the fruits,
they also ate the radjoactive thinga there.
We oan consider that these foods were radiosctiva,
plants,
these
they also ate
animals,
they
the
also
thinga
ate
the
thnk
are
Alas,
if animals ate thease
radioactive.
radioactive
things
And
tnat
were
{fF pnople
in
the
ate
meat.
Evan If people had cookad food that contained things that are radioactive, tne
radioactive things in the fvod would not have gone away.
Since thare are radigactive things in the lagoon,
amounts
in
the
fish.
If people ate
fish,
there may algo be ama?)
the amount of radioactivity they
received was very small because of the small amounts of radioactivity
in tha
fish.
If radioactive things ontered the body, some of them have left ih by now
and some remains in it, and radiation will continue to come from those left in
the bady.
THE POSS(BLE BrfECTS OF RADLATION IN PEOPLE'S BODIES
Marshallese
people
have ealled
radiation
“polson."
poigon works and the way radiation works are different.
However,
~bhe way
Usually, when poison
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