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The fallout was like dust or sand with radiation and fell from the dark
cloud as it passed over the islands.
As the map shows,the fallout
radiation was heaviest near Bikini and got less and less as the cloud
moved east.
‘The peoplé on Rongelap Island got the most fallout, those
7 Marshallese on Ailingnae and 28 Americans on Rongerik received less chan
half the amount of the Rongelap people and the people on Utirik Atoll
got only about 1/12 the amount of the Rongelap people.
The table shows
the people exposed and the amount of radiation they received.
SUMMARY OF FALLOUT EFFECTS
Estimated
Group*
Composition
Rongelap
Gamma
Dose
(Rads)
Fallout
Observed
Ailingnae
64 Marshallese
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18 Marshallese
Heavy
(snow-Like)
Moderate
Rongerik
28 Americans
Moderate .
Utirik
157 Marshallese
(mist-lLike)
(mist-like)
None
Extent of
Skin Burns
175
.
69
“
Many
Few
78
Very few
14
None
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*Also exposed were 23 Japanese fishermen who received a sublethal dose
The people living on these Islands received almost all of their
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radiation during the first day with very little after chat.
When they
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were evacuated from the Islands they had some radiation in their bodies
and they also had small amounts of radiation on their bodies, which was
washed off at Kwajalein.
what is radiation?
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In some ways radiation is like ordinary
light except it cannot be seen)felt or smelled, but unlike light it may
penetrate into the body and cause harm.
and dust that fell out of the bomb cloud.
The radiation came from the sand
Some of this radiation