which is deep,
At Bikini cesium and strontium are the radioactive thinga that
produce the highest amount of radiation.
On the northern fslands of Enewetak
bhere was more plutonium and americium than at Bikini and the U.S. Government
could sorape some of them off because they were near the surface.
Howaver,
they could not remove the strontium and cesium because they are daaper in the
soil.
At Bikini
the U.S.
Government did pick up all -serap metal
scrub growth before the people returned in 1970.
and
removed
The serap metal was moved to
deep water in Lhe ocean and lagoon.
The map on page _ shows where the radioactive things are ak the Bikini
Atoll.
things.
We gea that all of the islanis in the Bikini
atoll have radicactive
Next to the map of Bikini is a map of Enewetak Atoll showing where
the radioactive things are at this atoll.
Here we seq that the amounts of
radioactive things are smaller than at Bikini.
The islands in the south of
the Enawetak Atoll hava a very small amount of radioactivity.
THE WAYS RADIATION ENTERED PEQPLE'S BODTES
People received radiation from radioactive things at Bikini Atoll while
thay
lived
penetrated
there
in 2 ways.
people's
skin
and
1
= radiation
entered
the
that came
body;
2
=
from the
the
things
soil and
that
are
radioactive in some of the foods that people ate, in soe of the water they
drank, or in the air they breathed produced radiation inside the bady.
The
radiation
that
came
up out of the
cobalt that was near the surface.
soi]
oame
from
the
caesium
and
Part of the radiation from the aesjum and
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