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Field surveys. 35arting in May ba28, Conard and Cohn (Co59), measured wholebody levels of
Cs,
Zn, and
~-Co in about 100 Rongelap adults, adolescents
and juveniles as part of the Brookhaven medical examination program.

A ship-

borne portable whole-body counter with a standard chair geometry in a shielded
steel room was employed (C063).

Whole-body counts were obtained in the

Rongelap and Utirik populations in 1959 (C060), 1961 (C062), 1965 (C067), 1974
(Co75) and 1977 (Co80a). The counting geometry was converted to a scanning
type shadow-shield geometry starting in 1965 (Co67).
From 1978 to the present time, whole-body counting measurements were
performed with the bed-type shadow shield whole-body counter (Co67). In 1980,
a standard chair geometry was once again used. All three counting systems
were intercalibrated and also calibrated against the large 54-detector wholebody counter at BNL.

Three body burden measurements of the Bikini Island population were

conducted from 1974 to 1978 at Bikini Island. In 1980, 1981, 1982, and 1983,
whole-body counting of the Enewetak population occurred. Whole-body counting
in the field was done from a ship located in the lagoon of the atoll and
people were taken to and from shore by small boat.

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