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Other atolls have been studied in past years but not as intensively
you’re right, not as intensively as Enewetak, Bikini, Rongelap and Utrik.
That is because our records from the test days showed that the relatively
higher contamination
levels were on those four atolls.
Anticipating
that
at some point our surveillance or our measuring program will begin to
disappear, because we will have learned everything that we can learn or
need to learn.
comprehensive
We felt that before that time came we should take one
look beyond the four to atolls close in, but further out than
these four, to assure that there is not someplace that we had missed or
that there is not some condition that we had missed.
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Some of the techniques that we developed
in the studies, especially
of Enewetak and Bikini, made it possible for us to do this wide area search
of many hundreds of islands, or several hundred islands in a reasonable
time.
A capability that we had not had years before.
As soon as that
capability was there and since we had to bring the ship out especially to
look at Bikini, we decided that it made very good sense to go and make this
last check to be sure that there was not something there that we did not
know about.
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The result of this, of this survey has verified that the choices we
made for study in earlier years were good choices.
Marshallese:
So now this chart or the maps on page 8 and 9 indicates that
the-re is some contamination of other atolls besides the four that we all
have been familiar and knew had some contamination.
government, the United States government,
So America, as a
is willing to obviously then
recognize that fact and say, yes, there is contamination
of other atolls
besides the four that we have been working with prior to this time.
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Yes, there is some and the amount is reported in the survey report.
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