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GhaL Wa3 Geep Was Unable to raach people because af the thicknensa of
the soil.
As is shown in the picture on page 9, there ware radioactive matarials in
Lhe soil, some in the placas where the roots of plants grew.
their foad from the soil through their ruots.
All planta get
Now, as these planta get their
food, some of the things that are radioactive in the soll go up the trunks to
the branches and to the fruits.
When people ate the fruits,
they also ate the radjoactive things there.
Wa can consider that these foods were radioactive,
plants,
these
Also, if animals ate these
they also ate the things thak are radioactive.
animals,
And if people ate
they also ate the radioactive things that were
jin
the meat.
Evan if people had cookad food that contained things that are radioactive, the
radioactive things in the feod would not have fone away.
Sinee there are radioactive things in the lagoon, there may also be amall
amounts
in the
fish.
If people ate
fish,
the amount of radioactivity they
received was very gmall because of the small amounts of radioactivity in tha
fish.
If radioactive things entered the body, some of them have lert it hy now
and some remains in it, and radiation will continue to come from those left in
the body.
THE POSS(BLE EFFECTS OF RADLATION IN FEOPLE'S BODIES
Marshallese
people
have
called
radiation
"poison."
poigon works and the way radiation works are different.
However,
the
way
Usually, when poison
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