\ : «A 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 92 eeneeetl ee eet so. If someone did have a watch, they did not do free to when it appeared to have ended. Bororraged result of three factors: This is generally the beemmewest the exact amount of radioactivity to which the people on those islands were pet radiation badges on Rongelap, Ailinginae, or Utirik at the time of the fallout, A Since there was no RadSafe team with radiation monitoring instruments or tet from External Sources Rene Dose Estimates of Whole-Body Radiation tage iene AREAS OF PARTICULAR CONCERN | eval as appropriate, in the sections which immediately follow. ~ later reports. ee to a number of variable factors, Wa —_ as aanae . aes mem ee be statistically significant, no definite causal relationship can be proven due