which they seek their food.
Each of these questions has to be looked at,
each of these locations has to be looked at using some assumptions as to
what people are doing and for how long and that is what the rest of the
booklet will present.
This simply tells you that levels of radiation are
widely distributed through those regions and they vary even within an
atoll.
Now what that means comes next.
Marshallese:
May I ask what is that level of radiation that this exceeds,
if 4 is above?
(Ray:
Do you want to answer that Bill?
the actual numbers?
Bair:
Ray:
Bair:
Do you want to give them
Yes.)
(It's) The number is more than 100 picocuries per gram in the soil.
That is a measurement, that is what 4 is.
That is a level of radioactive
material in the soil.
Suzanne Cowan:
limit.
Dr. Ray is now saying that the designation 4 has no upper
It is a designation above this limit.
Whereas how can you say that
and Dr. Bair is saying that all these designations are considered not
dangerous?
Bair:
If people lived on these islands that have a level of 4 on them and
didn't eat any food that was grown on those islands they wouldn't get much
radiation exposure.
They wouldn't get much radiation.
But if they eat
food that is grown on those islands, they would get more radiation
depending upon how much foad they ate from those islands.
Ray:
up.
I think there is a misunderstanding here.
Let me try and clear that
Dr. Bair did not say that any number is not dangerous.
What he said
is that the numbers that were measured in this survey would not indicate a
dangerous situation at any of these locations.
measurements that permit him to say that.
We do have actual
It is not an open ended thing