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Many Enewetak tests were on steel towers.
Many Bikini
tests were on steel barges moored near shore.
There is
induced radioactivity plus fission products in
the
fallout that contaminated the islands at both Atolls.
One
ESS%. see differences in = isotopic content of contamination between islands at Eikini and Enewetak but there are
just as large differences between islands within the same
atoll.
The only
.really unique island in our view is
Runit.
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in an area where tests
no nuciear yield.
gave no nuclear yield or essentially
Nothing similar to this has been found
at Bikini.
Page 9 ~ So far as DOE is aware, there is only one development related to living pattern restrictions at Enewetak
requiring any change in
nothing weetevyer to
DOE recommendations and this has
do with debris and soil cleanup and
in fact nothing to do with any recent experience at
Enewetak.
Rather, the unacceptably high Cesium-137 kad bidy
burdens of Bikini residents and the failure of a recomnended precaution against use of locally grown foods
(par-
ticularly coconuts from Bikini Island),to limit these
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body burdens, argues,ctrengiythat coconuts net—te—-prenied
in similarly contaminated soils at Enewetak or in
anywhere near the Bikini levels.
As a result
soils
of this
experience, DOE deemed it prudent to recommend that
with coconut.
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‘islands in the northeast at Fnewetak not be planted
Another thing learned from the Bikini
experience is that whenever the preferences of the
Enewetak (or for that matter Bikini) people conflict with
good radiation protection practice, DOE must stand by
its best judgement recommendations regardless of what wx the
Master Plan or other earlier documents may state.
we support all possible input, from the
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people, radiation
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