the body.
Soientiata have bruught this inatrument
amounts
radioactive
of
scientists
found
that
things
as
the
in
the
bodies
food-bearing
of
trees
to measure
to Bikini
tho
Bikini
began
te
paople.
praduce
Fruit,
amount of radjoactive things in the bodies of the people increasad.
the
amounts
of
scientists had
radioactive
astimated when
things
in
peoples
the people were
bodies
told
were
that
they
the
The
the
By 1978,
higher
could
than
return.
This {sn the reason Lhat they were removed from Bikini Atoll.
Scientists
cobalt
in
a
can
use
parson,
thts
but
americium, and strontium.
machine
this
to
davice
measure
{ts
not
the
able
amount
to
of
ecnasium
maasure
and
plutonium,
Tha way they measure these three things,
urine and measure the amount of things that are radioactive in it.
they take
Fron doing
thia they are able to estimate how muah plutonium, americium, and strontium is
2
in & person's body.
-
THE AMOUNT OF RADTATION THAT HAS AEEN ESTAALISHED (A LIMIT IS IMPLIED]
(RADIATION STANDARDS)
No one is absolutely certain how muoh radiation a person can reeniva and
not have harm to his body.
Around the world, many groups of aciantista and
ductors are sbudying this subject.
ara:
International
Proteetion
people
fram
Agenay,
The names of some of thease organizations
Commission on Radiological Protection,
and
the harm
the
{nternational
they might
receiva
Atomic
fron
Energy
radiation,
U.3.
Agency.
and
&nvironmental
To
vased
protect
upon
the
information they hava found, these organizations nave recommended some amounta
‘of
radiation
that
people
should
not
exonad,
These
organizations
also