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ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION
JAPANESE EXPEDITION TO THE PACIFIC PROVING GROUNDS AREA
, Note by
the Secretary
1, At Meeting 1014 on July 7, 1954, the Chairman requested
that the staff ascertain the accuracy of details of newspaper
stories about the Japanese expedition to the Pacific Proving
Ground area.
2. The Director of Biology and Medicine has advised that
the best summary of information presently available is. contained
in the following dispatch from Ambassador Allison in Tokyo on
July 7, 1954:
The research vessel SHUNKOTSU MARU returned July 4
after a 9,000 mile survey of the Pacific test area,
A detailed report and samplings were submitted to the
fisheries agency upon arrival, The data is being
studied by the new group, Bikini waters investigation
liaison council, with the findings "to be treated as
national property and given to the world."
Newspapers on the following
agency as announcing that: (a)
day quoted the fishing
Interim reports show
that fish from the test area are edible unless caught
in the northern equatorial current;
(b) Radioactive
contamination of sea water and marine life is strongest
between 8 and 12 degrees north latitude west of Bikini;
(c) Most radioactivity on tuna was found in the internal
organs and around the gills, very little in the flesh;
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