DimARCHIVES -3- Iv. Surviving adult Utirik people dose: 14 rads external gamma exposed to fallout. plus 15 rem internal Total (Estimated irradiation.) - 120 1. One person developed a nodular thyroid gland and As the tissue resembled underwent surgery in 1969. a follicular aclenoma in frozen section, a total thyroidectomy was performed; histologic sections confirmed the diagnosis and upgraded the degree of malignancy. She has recovered satisfactorily. 2. One person with slight enlargement of one lobe of the thyroid to be treated consel-vatively and observed. One case of nodular thyroid has been found in a non-exposed Rongelap woman living on Ebeye. Thyroid surgery has been recommended for this patient at Majuro llospitalo NO other i!ns~ances of thyroid abnormalities have becll found in the control. populatiotls 1 iving on Utirik, Majuro or Ebeyea *** have stabilized so far as the It appears Lhct ~i~e exposed populations Since the delayed reactions by the thyroid reactioi-is sze collcerned. that this population thyroid are a pos:;ibility, Dr. Conard proposes continue to be kept under observation. Dr. Conard notes that the Bikini people now living on Kili are putting increasing pressure on the Trust Territory for return to their Atoll before the restoration is complete and ~ile land can support a population. This movement may cause the Trust Territory to ask that all radiologic can be made as and safety activities be accelerated so that decisions to construction of homes, cistcrn$, etc., ahead of schedule. A low key public announccnent considered by tile Brookhaven of the abo~’e.observations public rc’lazio:]s.o;”fice~ The same information is being forwarded to Mr. of the Joint Committee on Atomic Ener~y, Secy (2)-< GM (2) AGMRD PI BMA AD (Bruner) Bauser Jo}~n R. Totter Director Division of Biology is being for the information and Medicine