Surveillance of Facilities and Sites Marshall Islands Radiological Safety Program Title: ?roject 15. Technical Progress in ~ 1978: ~K-01-01-52 Several reports are in press or in progress for publication in ~ 1978. These reports will surmnarizeall B24Lradiological program activities to date and identify the technical issues to be addressed in FY 1979 and 1980. Two field trips were made in October 1977 to initiate the BNL air monitoring programs at Bikini, Rongelap, and Utirik; and to establish the .— in vivo counting program. Sufficient field monitoring data will become available to assess average radionuclide body burdens for residents of Bikini, Rongelap, and Utirik, and to make a preliminary analysis of the inhalation pathway at these atolls. Personnel and analytical laboratory resources are being mobilized to provide technical program support for the “13 Atoll Survey” which is expected during FY 1978. At least two additional field trips are planned for FY 1978 to ccntinue environmental surveillance programs at Utirik, Rongelap, and Bikini, and the study of tTends in 137CS body burdens at Bikini. Field trip scheduling continues to be hampered, however, by uncertainties over logistics support. -. .. 17. ,; Expected Results in FY 1979: At least three field trips will be made to Bikini, Rongelap, and Utiril Atolls to conduct routine environmental suneillance and personnel monitoring activities. In addition, two or more field trips will be.made to Enewetak to continue baseline .— in vivo counting and bioassay activities begun in F’Y1978, and to initiate a new environmental suneillance program consistent with the return of control of the atoll to the Marshallese. Average baseline radionuclide body burdens will be established for typical residents of uncontaminated atolls. Additional contributions to body burdens from environmental pathways on contaminated atolls will be determined fog individuals and populations at Bikini, Rongelap, and Utirik. Definition of the inhalation pathway at the aforementioned atolls will be completed, and a working predictive model will be developed which incorporates environmental and pathway analyses with actual human uptake experience. 18. Expected Results in FY 1980: Continuation of programs described in FY 1979. -. (See Continuation Sheet)