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Radiological Survey at Bikini Atoll
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April 1976
I.
Purpose
As preparations continue to be made for the repatriation of the
Bikini people, the need for additional detail on the extant
conditions at Bikini Atoll becomes more apparent.
radiological
Surveys by Brookhaven
National Laboratory (BNL), and the University of Washington, Laboratory
of Radiation Ecology (LRE), from 1972 to the present have served to pull
together previous data and provide more contemporary assessments of the
radiological impacts of environmental radioactivity on the returning population.
These data also laid the groundwork for a major multiagency survey
of Bikini and Eneu Islands in the summer of 1975 which was designed to
provide a sufficiently complete radiological picture for the Bikini Council
and for the Department of the Interior and Trust Territory planners to
make the final arrangements for repatriation.
The preliminary Bikini Atoll Master Plan, developed for, and in concert
with, the Bikini people by Holmes and Narver, Inc., has established a
priority list for the agricultural development of other islands in the atoll.
The Nam-Bokata complex in the northwest corner of the atoll will be
developed first and the survey team expects to concentrate its efforts in
this region since sketchy data exist on the present radiological conditions
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In addition, followup environmental monitoring will be performed
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