BuDGET TITLE Marshall Islands Radiological erv Pro- HA-02 AND REPORTING DATE PREPARED CODE -01-02-O 03/31/80 7 CONTRACTOR NAME Associated Un)verslties, 20a. CODE Inc. WP NUMBER TASK NO. REV. NO. BN1 o Facility Requirements. It is anticipated that work for this proposal will use existing Laboratory facilities and site utility services. 20b. Publications. Greenhouse, N..4., Xiltenberg*r, R.P., Lessard, E.T. Measurements at Bikini Atoll, BNL 51OO3, January 1979. External Exposure ?!ethods and Results for the Former Residents of Greenhouse, %..4. Dosimetry Bikini Atoll, BNL 26797, November 1979. Miltenberger, R.P., Greenhouse, X.A., Lessard, E.T. Whole Body Counting Health Results for Inhabitants of the Northern Marshall Islands: 1974-1978, Physics, in press. ?liltenberger, R.P., Lessard, E.T., Greenhouse, N.A. Dietary Radioactivity Intake from Bioassay Data: A Model Applied to 137CS Intake by Bikini Island Residents, Health Physics, in press. 20C. Purpose. The primary purpose of this program 15 to measure and evaluate the internal and external doses to people living on those islands in the Marshalls group which were impacted by tropospheric fallout from United States atmospheric nuclear tests in the Pacific. Its objectives are: a. Direct or indirect measurement of radionuclide body burdens and resultant doses and dose commitments. b. ?leasurement of external radiation environments and their contributions to the total doses to individuals and island populations. .. c. Evaluation of dietary habits and living patterns insofar as they relate to the elucidation of exposure pathways and the determination of doses. 20d. Background. This program was initiated in 1974 at the request of the AEC (DOS) in anticipation of potential radiation exposures to tb.ereturning Bikini population. 20e. Approach. Internal and external doses will be measured and evaluted using accepted and up-to-date health physics practices.