There are three kinds of radiation that come from the earth:
1.
alpha radiation = the place it reaches from where it is made is short,
perhaps
3
Inches
Surrounding
it
In
alr,
and
a
paper
aan
atop
it
{its
movement},
2.
beta radiation - the place it reagheas from where it
is made ia farther,
perhaps
-Ehicker than paper,
4 yards
gurrounding
it
in air, and things
‘ guoh as plywood, are needed to atop it.
3-0
gamma
much
radiation = the place it reaches from where it is formed is very
farther,
parhaps 300 yards aurrounding
{&
in
air,
and only
those
things that are thick and dense, such as cement, huge pucks, and matal,
can stop it.
Alpha radiation cannot pasa into the akin of peopl
fata radiation ean
pasa through the skin and reach about one inoh into the body.
However, things
that are radioactive may enter the body with food and air and ean reach the
blood, bones,
lunga and other parts of the body.
When these things that are
radioactive change they produca alpha and bata radiation that can reach the
jnternal organs.
When ganma radiation hits people it goes through their badies,
but soue
of the energy of this radiation remains in their bodies.
Just
like
in
other
places
around
the
world,
alpha,
beta,
and
gamma
radiation have occurred on Bikini Atoll from radioactive things that have been
a part of the world ginoe the beginning.
‘There are also tdindsa of radiation
that come fram the sky that pass through people's bodies,
At
Bikini
americiu.
Atoll
feta
some
radiation
alpha
also
radiation
vumes
from
also
comes
strontium,
from
plutonium
desium,
and
and
cobalt.
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