among tha people who have raceived radiation, they would be no different thoae that appear in other people around the world. that a radioactive element that aame The soientists have found from the atomic canoer in tha throat. (in the thyroid). from bomb testa oan cause This radioactive material remains only @ faw months, 30 that jt ia gone from Bikini Atoll today. Among tha paople of any country there arn children born with diseases and infirmities that are inherited, Some of ‘malformations, mental retardation, ete. thesa area: deafness, blindness, These kinds of defects occurred in the Marshall Islands before the atomic bomb tests and they continue to oceur today. In a commmi ty in which peaple have received radiation, there might be m™m inerease in the number of children born with defects. THE WAYS THAT SCLENTISTS KNOW THE AMOUNT OF RADIATION A PERSON RECELVES Everybody in the world has some radioactive materials People cannot know by themselves how much radiation Lhelr bodies beaause it. they cannot see Only instruments can roveal things that measuring are the radioactive radiation in that jit, hear it, this. amell instruments the goil and in comes from the soil. their body. is in any thing or taste it, There are itn : food; there jn {t, or feel for measuring are Seilantists those use for, these insteudenta to gat information in order to be able to estimate the amount of radiation that people can receiva {f they live tn an area containing radioactive things. The picture at the left shows the inasteument that sefentists use to Measure the anount of gamma radiation that comes from radioactive materials in 8