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I think that these numbers will have a great deal more meaning when
we get further back in the text.
I don’t want to turn off a question, but
there is a lot of explanation in what Alice is going to go through that
will help us to, help answer your question.
Perhaps a little later in the
time we will come back to it but I think it would be a lot easier to
comprehend and a lot easier for us to address after we develop. ..
Marshallese:
I am still not quite sure why we need to go further into the
book when we are right here at this place and we can compare Ailinginae has
a 2 and Bikini has these other numbers.
(and)
So it seems appropriate to
address this question right now.
Q:
Well, certainly we can, can pursue it now.’ I was just suggesting
that what comes after this helps to explain those numbers.
Buck:
I will tell you what I am really asking.
accuracy of the numbers.
It seems like maybe Bikini then should probably
be a 6 or a 7 rather than a 4.
Bair:
I am questioning the
I am just wondering
that.
The number 4 means the radioactive contamination
level .
is above a certain
The level 3 is another range, level 2 is another range and the
level 1 is the lowest range.
So when you have an island or an atoll that
says 4 it has a range of values which may (be) extend upwards.
know how high because I don’t have all the data.
I don’t
Do you understand what I
am saying?
Marshallese:
So the 4, does the 4 represent acceptable doses?
And if that
is the case does that mean it is safe?
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The 4 represents an area which has rad. ation contamination
certain level.
above a
We have not yet talked about what that means in terms of
dose or what it means in terms of living at that place.
There are other
things beside the simple number of what the radiation level is on a
particular island.
There is the diet of people, there is the location from
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