Robison:
The number that would compare to the 500 that you referred to
would be this column which says 400, but that is the maximum amount, the
maximum exposed individual.
Most people would get much less than that and
that’s the number you would compare to 500 and that gets a little less
every year but by the time you add up 30 years that’s how you get 2500.
Okay?
It is getting less every year but still you have to add year one,
two, three, four, five, right up to thirty.
And so that’s how you get to
that number at the end of 30 years.
Marshallese:
Seems like yesterday,
I remember now something I wanted to
ask about our discussion yesterday.
That at Rongelap, somebody living at
the northern part of the atoll with the numbers you are using in your
calculations as a base, 233 population in 1980, in the next 30 years, at
some point in the discussion yesterday,
might die.
Die from cancer?
I recall you saying that perhaps 3
I remember this coming out of the discussion
when we were looking at the slides and the figures on the slides, seems to
me that that figure came up 3 people.
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Robison:
...additional cancer.
Marshallese:
Bair’s point six to 3.
Looks to me like the color in this picture of Rongelap island
is just one down from the color of Naen.
In other
words we aren’t in that
category but we’re in this category by living on the islands, the main
island of Rongelap.
He says that of everybody living at Naen you get the
figure 3, might 3 more might die because of all of them living there.
Well, Rongelap is the next spot over as far as contamination.
So what’s it
for us?
~:
And it is point six.
It is one-fifth of that.
point six.
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