Bair:
The higher one on the Rongelap which is Naen, it‘s in the north.
The radiation dose, the amount of radiation they would get if they lived
there, would be about 6 times more than if they lived on this, on Rongelap
island.
And the risk of having a health effect would be 6 times higher.
(To Alice:
How do you plan to translate that?)
(Alice to DOE Representatives:
Cowan:
.
I am not sure how...)
Does that mean that you could take 6 times that and that 34 people
would die of cancer in the next 3 years due to the radiation?
Bair:
That is the upper estimate, the highest risk estimate that people
would, that scientists would support.
Buck:
This wouldn't be multiplied by 6.
Bair:
No, no.
If they received 6 times as much radiation, than this risk
number would be higher.
Ray:
Cowan:
Out of the 233...
Can I use, ask what growth rate you used?
We assumed that the population would increase by a factor of 3.
Cowan:
Bair:
It would be 0.6 to 3.6.
That would be for the entire population (of 233) living on and
subsisting on Naen.
Bair:
This, is the high?
3% per annum?
No, three times in 30 years, and it is based on the past increases
in the Marshall Islands.
Robison:
But that again, it is important to understand that, if you talk
about Naen and the number 6 times greater than Rongelap, that's assuming
that they live there full time and eat all their food from there.
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