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ERDA's SUGGESTED RESPONSE AND/OR COMMENTS (Conttnued)
on the people living there were done, usually by technicians
accompanying the team.
The doctors visited Bikini because
it was logistically desirable following the Rongelap
examinations to stop in transit at Bikini for airlift to
Kwajalein.
On these occasions and at the request of the
health aide their talents were used to aid in general health
care, j.e., for ''sick calls.''
These visits in no way
constituted periodic medical examinations for possible
radiologically connected health effects, but were for
humanitarian reasons.
As was pointed out above,
the
radiation doses in the Bikini people are too low to expect
detectable radiation effects and no examinations for this
purpose were done.
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Ist sentence - deny for lack of knowledge.
2d sentence - admit.
Detailed comment:
The apprehension and concern for
health being expressed by members of the Bikini people
and the demands for medical examinations and treatment
of injuries for those who have lived for a time on
Bikini tsland is a new element in the rehabi Sat RHI
of Bikini Atoll.
Those experts who made the judgment
In 1968 on whether or not to recommend that the Bikini
people be returned to their atoll, were confronted with
two types of information.
On the one hand, there were
the results of past radiological surveys of the atoll
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