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or the possibility of an unknown influence."
A second area of concern by the Committee related to certain unproven assumptions
and statements contrary to this hesitancy to make definite statements made in
earlier reports, which apparently influenced assumptions and statements made in
These general areas of concern will be elaborated upon more fully
exposed cannot be calculated, and will never be known.
One, no one of these islands had a watch or clock
which could have recorded the time which lapsed from the time the fallout began
Two, there was great individual variation in exposures.
For example,
children, because of their greater activity and curiosity, may have been exposed
to greater amounts of fallout than older persons.
Conversely, this may be
attenuated by the fact that children are wont to play in the ocean during hot
days and may have inadvertently cleansed themselves of what larger amounts they
picked up.
Young, and middle-aged adults, however, may have received the
largest doses because of following habitual patterns of daily activity which
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