and
1.25 man vears
dort was odtained
technical.
An additional 9.25 man vrears
for technical supv-
from the rew Safety and Environmental Protection Division
(BNLSEP formerly BNLHPS).
Miltenberger (BNLSEP) replaced Naidu and joined
Greenhouse as principle staff.
A request from the Energy Research and De-
velopment Administration, Division of Safety, Standards and Compliance
(ERDADSSC formerly AECDOS) to add air sampling equipment
surveillance program at Bikini was received.
counting of the Bikini and Enewetak people.
to the radiological
ERDADSSC also requested in vivo
Major equipment purchases in-
cluded four wind-vowered electrical generators, three multichannel analyzers
and =wo sodium todide (Nal) detectors.
During a September 1976 BNL medical survey to Rongelap, Knudsen, a Medical Yepartment physician, was requested by the residents of Rongelap to have
Naidu of 3NLS=P stay on Rongelap Island and instruct the people in radiation
sciences.
Naidu was funded by the Energy Research and Development Administra-
tion's Division of Biomedicine and Environmental Research (ERDADBER) and spent
six weeks during January and February 1977 educating the Rongelap people on
matters pertaining to the effects of radiation on man.
During April and May of 1977, BNLSEP's Greenhouse, Miltenberger and
Levine went to Utirik, Rongelap and Bikini to do site planning for wind-
powered electrical generators and air sampling stations.
Together with a con-
ventionally powered comparison air sampling station, which they iastalled at
Kwajalein Island, Kwajalein Atoll,
these stations tnitiated the long-term sam-
pling program for air activity concentrations of plutonium.
Fossil-fueled
Zenerators were judged incapable of supplying continuous year round power on
outer atolls.
Wind-powered generators were thought to be capable of supplying