ee we -3- on (aud 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. weak'ehiunied “os Pu were depositéd in suface soils 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 O¥trwhelmingiy Afa: “$7 plana “8 body burdens, argues,ctrengiythat coconuts net—te—-prenied in similarly contaminated soils at Enewetak or in anywhere near the Bikini levels. As a result soils of this experience, DOE deemed it prudent to recommend that with coconut. eRee ener ee ‘islands in the northeast at Fnewetak not be planted Another thing learned from the Bikini experience is that whenever the preferences of the Enewetak (or for that matter Bikini) people conflict with good radiation protection practice, DOE must stand by its best judgement recommendations regardless of what wx the Master Plan or other earlier documents may state. we support all possible input, from the While people, radiation teveis-end—depres—of—eieanup—shouid take_precedence in ee ane, nce o$e estimate, te ltdaqanstaphnl Cetadaden prit& Piew ttenclo, suk Conchetives dvau, 4 Theda nes wiaet See egmata ae - > a