TITLE ; Marshall islands Radiological . ea Satar-s - - . Seagrass , a oO HASOL-DL-J2 a cCOEt Assoc. atea Uniwersiries, Ine, NL atail Attachments. ATA 1 C3/31/31 ~ *” om | | WP ONUPARER i TASK NO, . 2EV 4 NO. cont. 23 pA 0 Tecinicai Prograss cont. ce n 4 z. . DATE FRES5azE5 : CONTRACTIR Names x - BUDGET ANC 2EPTRTING COCE Ss. al Proeress in FY 1980 conc. 3urdens elevatad above this level could be aczributed to recent of 3ikxini Atoll food which had bean transportad to Xili Island. oo? tly Fs | fu a Suman ails samoles had been obtained frog four lactasing adult former 2ikini 23 whose Cs-137 body durden had Seen defined Sy whole-body counting and adiscnent eal analysis of urine. “ilk saaeles along with 3ixini Island coconut ba :a5 and auts were analyzed Sv gamma spectroscopy and atomic absorprion to ¢ceTert.n2 the orasence of Cs-137 and K-40. Results were used to estimate the Cs-l2 sod t.rcen for Marshallese infants wnose orinar: food supsly was Auman cilx and Stetnul irae sraducts. vity tagestion rates and fucure deody burdens for Cs-137 wera estinated ation who may raturn £9 Zaua isiand, 3ikxini Acoll. This srojection camnination cf activity transiar factors calculated From RAengeiap and se~s0dy counting data and from 2activicy concentration analyses of coconut tr2@2 oracucts. These factors were comparaole far doth atalls and dose-equivalenc anis were srojectad for adulrs. ° vaiiy acerivity ingestion rates, whole-sody dose-equivalanc rates and rs valant commitments to various orsans wera determnined. Zooulation dosize12S and methods were written uo and rasorted in a BNL suolicacion. ndivicual desimetric data vtecords are maintained at the Laboratory. rs reek fa be: sive and contemporary external exsesure rate data, whole-body coun : radiochenical analvsis of urine and blood data were reviewed for the eune 1984 co December 1989 for she Rongelasese and Utirikese. MDosinetric hich sest deseribed che ustake regime were consttuctad for the nuclides af ixvectad Progress in FY 1981. Parsonnel monitoring and related dasographic data will be obtained fron res igents cf Rongetap, Usircik and Enewec2k and other areas of interest zo DOE. data tase on diet and living vatterns will Se uodated for all relevane atolls ana/ar islands. The nxpectad Progress in FY 1992 =valuation of the decline af sSodv Surdens among former 3ixini fsland resicenis wili continue for that sertion of the copulation in rasidanece on ‘faiur Atoli of Xiii Isiand. Personnel ronitsring vill continue at Inewecax Atoll.