Appendix 4
Booklet Printed at Brookhaven National Laboratory
To Answer Questions of Rongelap and Utirik People

How does radiation cause

diseases in our bodies?
Radiationin fallout caused

injury to parts of the body.
Later on these parts became
sick and cannotdotheir job
properly. There is very little
radiationleft in the body now.

Howcan wetell if we have radiation in our bodies?
It is difficult for you to know if you have radiation in your body because thereis so
little. Only the experts can tell by checking you every year with special machines.
Howcanwegetrid of the radiation in our bodies, trees, ground, crabs, etc?
Yourbody will remove some of the radiation naturally when you use the benjo

but this takes a long time. The only wayto get rid of the radiation in thetrees,soil,
crabs, etc. is to collect them and dump them into the ocean. But, since the radiation
is weak there is no reason to do this.

‘Lush growth on Rongelap
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