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3. It is recognized that the people of Enjebi have a strohg desire to
return to liva on that fsland.
The island contains three ground zero
locations from nuclear tests and was within about 3 miles of the
| Mike event that had a total yield of about 10 Megatons. According to
the survey results presented in NV-140, Enjebi was the most heavily
contaminated of the larger islands in the Atoll.
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The Task Group has
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been unable to determine an
feasible, in order to resettle Enjebi at the same time as islands
in the south of the Atoll.
the island can be resettled.
It is reasonable
to expect that one day
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There appear to be two possible approaches
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Soil removal followed by studies with test plantings to determine
whether exposure for Enjebi residents would be within acceptable
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Conduct of studies using test plantings to determine when ‘exposures
would be within acceptable criteria but no soil removed.
in either case, housing construction and planting of subsistence and commercial crops would be deferred until research with test plantings
showed acceptably low levels of radioactivity.
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The Task Group
recommends the second approach as one .having minimal adverseimpact_
on the island environment.
4. The research program in 3 above should also include a
determination of radioactivity levels in coconut and other food crops
produced on PEARL, CLARA, ALICE, and BELLE. YVONNE should ‘also
be included after removal of plutonium contaminated soil.
5. All radioactive scrap metal and ccntaminated debris identified during
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