Surveillance or Facilities and Sites ost zitie: Marshall Islands Radiological Safety Program 16. Technical Proeress in FY 1977: (Cont'd) RK-01-95-02- representative of contaminated and uncontaminated Locations in the region as part of a plutonium excretion study. Definitive measurements of external exposure rates were made at Utirik and Rongelap, and the incremental exposure rates from Bravo fallout were determined for the village islands and several others at -*these atolls. ults in FY 1978: f o n is oO a fit i m wv ft “ Analyses of environmental samples collected from past surveys. are nearly completed, and reports of the results are in progress. TInstallacions of air sampling scations will be completed at Kwajalein, Sixiai, Rongelap, and Utirik; and inicial results of air monitoring and intensisi Group survey support will be provided for a planned interagency sponsored aerial radiological survey of all previously unsurveyed atolls in the northern Marshall Isiands which may have received local fallout from U.S. atmospheric wo om Oo 72$tu ‘ay -_ Ennectec Tool 1S. i 27 a) nuclear tests. ba td a QQ J 4 .o) a ‘ 7 rt wa n 1 ao ‘oO t-4 Continuation ef srograms deseribed for FY 1977 and 1978. Exdianation of Major Marerials, Ecuioment and Subcontract Capital Ecuioment, FY 1978: ‘UO eripneral electronics ($10,000) for the Safecy and Environmental Protec+ on oryesion analytical laboratory is needed to process the increasing load ivonmental samples collected on field surveys. Major Subcontract Trems, FY 1978: A supplemental budget request was made for FY 1977 te initiate the air monitoring and expanded urine bioassay program for plutonium. It will be necessay to extend the contracted peak load analyses of these samples into FY 197§ because of the lengthy sec up and processing times for amounts of radioactivity which are below conventional limits of detection. Anticipated cost is $10,000. Capital Equipment, FY 1979: Peripheral electronics equipment ($5,000) is needed to provide depth in the Safety and Environmental Protection Division analytical laboratory to handle peak loads of environmental samples which must otherwise be subcontracted to a commercial laboratory. (See Continuarcion Sheer) RHE