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ldvertiser Sciences Writer

RNIWETARK AVOLL -— The 20th
century shataised across this nechface of wolets ia fury. Now spent of
people who fornierly tive d here,
The prople of Mnewelak
can over
come (Le tthexploded ordianec ond
ether debris of World War tl. They
are Jess certain about living with raloagiively -- solic of i to renvain
for 240,004 years — released from
nuclear tests in (he northern part of
Uhre aicll frou i943 1 rough +1938,
flees
vases wi cuncer have
ed sncng other people of the
eee
Micronesian mid-Pacifie who were
irradiated from the Tallent al oa
hydrogen boinh lest ain iii. The
unexpected multgnineies hove enlh

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Administration
sumptions of human tolerance lo
(ENDA affirm they can do the job,
radiation,
Cesium, a radiacive folout prodUnitke populations of ather midevents of recent yours have instifled |
Pueifie atolls wha were dosed with “a sense of caution in the people of: uch uf nuyiv ay Cxplosiehs, bears a
chemin ressi de! ance bo phosphorus
Eneweluk.
downwind fallout, espechdly at Ron
cilible plardta. The
‘Ton yeurs afte, the Uniled States
and ty found
pelap and Ubrik, the Bnewebikh poo.
kiven anigunt oof
wAdertook a similar clenoup at Usk.
tay
fine
ple are Vehewed ta have escaped
lu
dee
tay
oneehall, hIOv
ni
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and
atlowed
sume
residents
Ryn
at
radioaclive contamination. The
“hs tts halldite ts dG gatas
United States had removed trem
vty wall be heap balns ti oth wt
Photos und artiedes copyetyhied t977, The.
furcibly before Ube tests, lo a distagt
Tantbahs Aube ertiyee
heat few weoks with Trust Territory
groap of islands Known as Ujelang
offsvnals gil What ty do withouwd
atoil.
Although most want to return,
to return. A stib-pending sail Wis: alurming the people of Dani” Nauy
satd.
some of the people are wondering - fed in 1975 with the. U.S. District
Pskini, Envwctak, Hanpalap and |
Court in thaws eclamming thet the
whether the techaolopy (hat reduced
Utirik are al) cadiatyon- Cxpased |
much of Enewetak to nuetear rubble :)' radiolopical scrubbing of Biking was
seflhe? fucshall Islands gdaaine .
incomplete. EDA monitoring of
also can locate and remeve conlaniiste: ced by the Uaned States under a
seme 160, Gikink people whe moved
to a devel that will
~ muted matter
back to thei wtol in 970 lins reveal. Uneed Nations loustecship set up i
keep then: free fram radalion-ined oan uplawe of radionuchides
Wa,
duced iinesses such as cancer and
Besides the siobienis on Brhdsed‘,
spontancously emitted, radiant ener:
. fene mutations.
While decontamination seicmiists
ay
in residents thal is deemed, events have cetwaired on Roupsran
higher than acecpliable
and Utah to:
he confidence in ihe
of the Defense Nuclear A Ropey and
“Some of them are cating Unap-, . aaanePEG SIN PY un i’,
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