December
Male Person:
Buck:
8,
1982
How much more have we got to cover?
We are ready to start Chapter 5 and Chapter 6 before the maps.
We
weren't going to go on to each individual map.
[Alice continued presentation in Marshallese. ]
TAPE 3, SIDE 2
Marshallese:
about cancer.
I am asking about cancer and birth defects, but primarily
How many. cancers have appeared in the Rongelap population
since the time of the testing of the bombs?
Bair:
I don't know.
Marshallese:
Bair:
So, what is the meaning of 0.1?
That means that if people, that if people receiving radiation during
the next 30 years, not in the past, but during the next 30 years, we
would..., {f they receive radiation on Rongelap for the next 30 years, we
would not really expect any cancers to be caused by the radiation.
are not saying there isn't a chance that there might be one.
But we
The risk is,
I don't know how to...
Bair:
One possible way; if there were 10 times as many people on Rongelap,
if there were 2,000 people today and they Ifved and had children for the
next 30 years, then there might be one person (receiving) having cancer
caused by radiation.
Marshallese:
There might be.
If your figures here reflected the period from the time
that the bombs were tested for a 30 year period, would you be able to make
an estimate {n figures that way?
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