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RORORLAP PROFLE TO RETURA TO THEIR HOMES IN THE TAUST TTRRITORY
OF THE PACIFIC IsLsNns
Flans aro being made for the return of the Rengelap people vho ware
exposed te fallout during the nuclear experiments at the 0.3. Atemia Energy
Coumiesion's Tniwetok Proving Grounds in Merch, 1954, to their howe atoll .
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in the Marshol) Inlends in about five months, the Department of the
Interior anounced today.
gue plene sre being made ae a remilt of information from the Atosic
Inevrgy Commiswion thet the peaple msy safely be returned to Rongelep.
The Comisaion hao advised the Deperiment that it hes oarefwlly evalusted
data fren neverel rediologiecal surveys sade during the pest two end
oMeehelf years.
The waedlte ef the latest survay indicate the presence
of residusl retiosetivity at a lewel that is acceptable fron a health
point of view, both 29 regartia the peteitial external game radiation
exposure ond StrontiumSO in the food supply, with the possible exception
of lend crabs.
The Rongelap inhatdtents wlll be advisw! not to eat lend
crabs, pending tho remuite of future radlolegier) surveye.
Land crebs
ere not a major iten in thedr normal diet.
tighty-two Rongelap inhebitents were removed from thelr home atall
follewing the fallout that cocurred after the March 1, 1954 nuclear test
at the Enivetok Proving Grounds.
They reenined on buajalein uti)
Jane, 1954, when they were moved te a village constructed for then on
Ejit Iskend in the Majuro Atoll.
A wamber of Rongalay inhabitentes who were avey from the atoll at
the tine of tha fallout also heave been Living on Ejit or eleawhere in
the Merghell Islands.
The aise of the group aleo has been increased
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