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Eight of the most highly qualified experts available
were asked to veview the survey material.
After meeting
with members of the survey team and examining their reports,
these consultants reached the unanimous conclusion that it
would be raciclogically safe to allow the Bikini people to
return to their home atoll.
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ving the years when radiation leveis were too high
ple to live there permanently, the AEC sponsored
scientific studies on the atoli.
In fact, Bikini
erved as a living ecological leboratory.