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and “ands" but we are still going to come up with numbers

in the end.
So taking all these values,

the vaiues arrived at

theoretically, values taken by the survey team, using the

various exponents and so forth, it would appear that the
best estimate we can make for the

Rongelap natives was about

150 r. This is whole body gamma.

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soft gammas, nor the betas.

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firm, but be that as it may, our estimate is about half, or

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in other words, about 75.

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Rongelap, but we are not quite so concerned that it is-less

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firm inasmuch as it would appear that the value is about 15 r

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biological hazard.

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badges.

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After going overall the survey data taken by

people, and what have you, it would appear that the firmest
data is to go to the film badges.
film badges were in an ice box

As you know,

some of these

and some were carried.

But

for most of the personnel, the film badges were between %
and 50 r.

For one film badge,

personnel on the north end of

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For the Air Weather people on Rongerik, again

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we are not concerned in terms of any

we have a whole series of survey data, as well as the film

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Utirik, again, is less firm than

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