Ray:
There is, I think not, a yes or no answer to the question.
And, the
portion of the diet that comes from the northern islands, as that portion
increases, the radiation @ose to that person increases.
If all of the diet
comes from the northern islands, that still is not a great catastrophe.
But things can be better if none of it cumes from the northern islands.
it is a matter of degree.
So
And there are choices to make if there are
benefits such as a better diet or a nore telicious diet from going to the
northern islands than confining to the southern islands.
that the individual must make or the commun‘ iy must make.
There is a choice
Perhaps you
would translate that and then cume hack to me.
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Ray:
In coming here, Senator, to present this report all of us have as you
know, have flown an airplane from the mainland.
And because of that flight
we have been exposed to radiation mich higher than we would have been,
appreciably higher than we would have been had we stayed home.
By being up
at high altitudes we get more radiation than had we been on the ground at
home.
The amount of radiation that all of us received just coming here for
this visit is not very different from the increase in radiation that your
Rongelap person would have by your daily increase in diet from the northern
islands over six weeks.
Our one trip here might equate to a month or six
weeks of this increase diet from Rongelap.
thac.
We derive some benefit from
It is important to us to fe here so we accept that additional
radiation, knowing that it is an additional risk to us, because there 1s
something that needs to be done here or that we want to do, that we Tike to
do. Similarly, if it is important enough to go to the northern islands and
expand the diet, there {fs some additional risk, we believe the risk is
small and the risk is described in this booklet. Nevertheless, we cannot
say that there is no increased risk from eating food from the northern
islands.
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