Descriptors: ENIWETOK; MAN; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIATION
PROTECTION; RADIONUCLIDE KINETICS
Broader Terms: ANIMALS; DOSES; DOSIMETRY; EXPLOSIONS; ISLANDS; MAMMALS;
MARSHALL ISLANDS; MICRONESIA; OCEANIA; PERSONNEL; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATES
; WEAPONS

Subject Categories:
&

Transport

10/5/687
01247745

560151*

-- Radiation Effects on Animals -- Man

-- Environment, Terrestrial -- Radioactive Materials Monitoring

510302

--

Terrestrial Ecosystems

(Item 387 from file:
EDB-83-147746

& Food Chains

--

(-1987)

103)

Title: Evaluation of Enewetak radioactivity containment.

Final report

Corporate Source:
National Research Council, Washington, DC (USA).
Committee on Evaluation of Enewetak Radioactivity Containment
Publication Date: Mar 1982
p 53
Report Number(s):
PB-83-204263

Document

Type:

Report

Language: English
Journal Announcement:

ERA8307

Availability: NTIS, PC A0Q4/MF A0l.

Subfile:
ERA (Energy Research Abstracts); INS (US Atomindex input).
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Publication: United States
Abstract: Between 1948 and 1958 the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands
was the site of 43 nuclear explosions, part of the government’s nuclear
testing program. Responding to the demands of the Enewetak people, the
government in 1972 decided to rehabilitate the atoll. In the cleanup
process, radiologically contaminated soil and debris from many of the
atoll’s islands were placed in a massive, domed concrete containment
structure built over one of the bomb craters on Runit Island. In order
to provide the people of Enewetak and the Marshallese Government with
an objective assessment of the containment structure’s safety, the
Defense Nuclear Agency asked the Advisory Board on the Built
Environment of the National Research Council to study the matter. The
committee appointed to conduct the study concentrated on two issues:
(1) the potential hazard of transuranics being transported to the
surrounding environment from the structure, and (2) the possible
sequence of events that would affect the structure’s physical
integrity, and the radioactive hazards that would result from
breachment of the dome.;
Major Descriptors: *MARSHALL ISLANDS -- RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL;
*RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL -- RADIATION HAZARDS
Descriptors: ALPHA-BEARING WASTES; CONTAINMENT; DECONTAMINATION; PLUTONIUM;
RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SOILS; TRANSPORT
Broader Terms: ACTINIDES; CLEANING; ELEMENTS; HAZARDS; HEALTH HAZARDS;
ISLANDS; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; METALS; MICRONESIA; NUCLEAR FACILITIES;
OCEANIA; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; TRANSURANIUM
ELEMENTS; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTES
“

Subject Categories: 052002*
-- Nuclear Fuels -- Waste Disposal & Storage
INIS Subject Categories: E52*
-- Waste Disposal

10/5/688

(Item 388 from file: 103)

Affiliation:

EGandG

Inc.,

P.O.

Box 1912,

Las Vegas,

NM 89125

Conference Title: American Nuclear Society winter meeting
Conference Location: Washington, DC, USA
Conference Date:
Source:

Trans.

Am.

Nucl.

Soc.

(United States)

v 43.

Publication Date: 1982
p 57
Report Number(s):
CONF-821103Document Type: Journal Article; Conference literature
Language: English
Journal Announcement: EDB8305

Country of Origin: United States

Coden:

14 Nov 1982
TANSA

90036495

01242918
EDB-83-142968
Title: Aerial and ground-based in situ measurements for evaluation and
implementation of radioactive site clearnup
Author(s): Tipton, W.d.

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