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22 years after Bikini nuclear blast
Islanders getting radiation care
the money on sending her
off the face of the earth,” according to a U.S. official, and
the island chain is still “very
hot.”
Eniwetok’s former residents have asked to return to
away as Hawaii. and “in res-
Department, which admunis-
Mrs. Boas says that, since
she had five children on the island at the time, she and her
husband received a total of
$270,000. She said they spent
BOMB, from Al
said George M. Allen. “They
feel that they’ve been the
guinea pigs toc long already.”
Some professionals within
the Atomic Energy Administration say that the Mar-
children to schoois as far
taurants.” A Peace Corps volunteer who lives on Rongelap
now said “None of the people
have any moneyleit.”
Although America’s big-
S..c.ese are being used prima-
ily as guinea pigs. “The basic
thrust of what the United
their island, and the Defense
ters the island, nas asked for
funds to clear the debms and
begin “rehabilitation.”
So iar, however, Congress
has failed to appropriate the
gest atomic test was conduct- requested money, according
toa US. official nere.
ed in Bikini, many more tests ———
States has done for the radia-
tion Victims has been research
for our information rather
than their welfare,” one ad. Ministration official said.
were conducied unul the 1958
atomic test ban treaty on Eniwetok Atoll. about 300 miles
For example, when an en-
| ergy administration doctor, in
northwest of here. That atoll
the course of his check-ups,
was purcnaxed from its residents who were resettled on
Ujalang Atoll about 150 miles
away.
discovered widespread cases
of diabetes, apparently unre-
lated to the bomb blast, he
was toid that the Energy Re-
search and Development Administration's $450,000 annual
Marshall [slands budget could
One of the Eniwetok is-
lands was “completely biown
not be used for treating this
disease,
Those, like Mrs. Boas, who
Were exposed to radiation
from the Bikini blast, re
ceived $10,000 as compensa-
tion from the U.S. The former
residents of Bikini recently
were granted $1 million in
compensation for their hard-
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