8.
How many radioactive things are in the dust in the air that people will
braathea,
Even
with
all
of
this
(nformation
ft
ks diffleult
to
know
tha
amount
of
radiation a parson will receive because we do not know how much of aach kind
. of food each person eats.
than other foods.
Soma foods nave nore of things that are radioactive |
A person who eats more of the foods that have more of the
things that are radioactive will racaive mora radiation.
A person who eats
smaller amounts of these foods will racaiva less radiation.
WHY THE PEOPLE WERE ALLOWED TO RETURN TO BIKINI ATOLL
In
19
the Bikini people asked the U.S. govarnmant to permit them to
“>
é&
return to their homeland.
the
tests
and
the
saientists
soils, water, and fish.
radiation
that
the
The U.S. government cleaned up the scrap left from
measured
the amounts of
radioactivity
in
tha
Prom this information they estimated the amounts of
people might
recsiva when they returned.
estimates were lower than the standard,
tha people were
Beeause these
allowed
to
raturn
in
1970.
{In these astinates measurements of radjoactive things in
nut
possible
on
the
islanda
because
foad-bearing
traes
foodstuffs were |
were
not
present,
Estimates of the amount of radioactive things in fruits from these treag ware
made
from information
from other places araund thw world.
Beeause the soils
of tne Bikini Atoll (and other atolls) are different from 3011 at these other
it
anticipated,
was
found
that
the
fruits
contained
more
cesium
than
was
In addition, estfaates of the amounts of food fram these trees
12
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ws
places,