. , #$ Battelle Pacific Norlhwest P.o. Box Richland. Telephone Laboratories 999 Washington (509) USA 99352 375-2421 Telex 15-2874 February 29, 1988 Dr. Henry Kohn RRP 1203 Shattuck Berkeley, CA 94709 Dear Henry: -. .. . . I am enclosing comments on your February 20, draft report “Rongelap Reassessment Project.” I am sending copies to several of your consultants, Drs. Adelstein, Dunster, Paretzke, and Schull, with whom I’ve had close associations. I am also sending a copy to Dr. Robison. You may want to he called me. send a copy to Mr. Franks since My principal concern is that the purpose and scope of your report are It is proported to be a review of a 1982 DOE book authored misrepresented. by Bruce Wachholz, Jack Healy and me, when in fact it is much more. Your report does briefly review the material in our book pertaining to Rongelap, a small part of our total book, but it is more a review of the 1980, 1981, 1982 Lawrence,Livermore reports, the Northern Marshall Islands Radiological Survey, parts 1-4, by Dr. M.L. Robison and colleagues. Further, YOU have undertaken a complete radiological assessment of Rongelap using data not available to us in 1982. I commendyou for this effort and urge that this be identified as the objective of your report. As I have noted several times in the accompanying comments, in writing the 1982 bilingual book, “The Meaning of Radiation for Those Atolls in the Northern Part of the Marshall Islands That Were Surveyed in 1978,” our only objective was to communicate The book contains no conclusions information for use by the Marshallese. or original information. Only risk factors and radiation protection standards accepted by the U.S. Government were included. It was necessary to keep the report simple because of the great difficulty in translating technical information into Marshallese. This translation problem led to our writing three bilingual books (the other two were for Enewetak and .