"An Evie is no stranger, either. happy to be back at Rongelap. I am sure she is very : (A warm response from the audience) "And Dr. Crant is no stranger. Frank Cogswell. He has been a colleague today, (Colleague was a difficult word: who works withhin'" was the solution) "Friend "For some time, as you know, the Atomic Energy Commission and then the Energy Research and Development Administration (translator quite readily made that "ERDA") and now the Department of Energy has had various scientific groups visit Rongelap and other atolls in the Northern Marshalls. "During the last 25 years the scientists who have visite 1 here have made measurements of radiation and have collected sa-t1es of the food and other things that are here: The water and the soil". “By taking these things back to the laboratories in the United States they have been able to learn about the radiation here and to give you advice about the foods and about your life on this atoll. "During the last few years we have developed new instruments and new methods - new ways of making radiation measurements that permit us to learn in much more detail the conditions of these atolls. "Most of these new methods and new instruments have been used at Enewetak recently to make the surveys of that atoll. + "For about two years we have been planning the survey that we are starting now, which will extend that work to many other: atolls in the Northern Marshalls. "Rongelap is the first of those atolls that we are now starting to survey. "T want to be sure that you understand that we have no new reason to be concerned about Rongelap. "But we have these new methods to be more sure than we have ever been before.