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September 2, 1975
FACT SHEET - BIKINI RESETTLEMENT
1968
I.
Ad Hoc Committee report. (TAB 1)
The exposures to radiation that would result from the repatriation
of the Bikini people do not offer a significant threat to their health
and safety.
2.
Such exposure may and should be further reduced by the following
simple measures:
a.
Restrict rehabilitation for the present to the islands of the
b.
Establish the first village and immediate food crops on Eneu,
No radiological precautions will be needed on Eneu because of
Bikini-Eneu complex.
(Appendix IV)
its very low contamination level. (Appendix V)
3.
c.
Any village construction on Bikini Island should involve the
covering of the site with coral rock as is the local custom.
d.
Radioactive scrap metal should be removed from the islands
adjacent to former shot sites.
e.
The population of land crabs should be sharply reduced because
of their high content of strontium 90.
f.
If pandanus trees which produce edible fruit are planted on
Bikini Island, two inches of topsoil should be removed from
the planting sites. The area of removal from each site should
be equal to the area covered by the crown of mature trees.
Determinations should be made of body burdens of cesium 137 and
strontium 90 at the end of the first year of residence on the Atoll
and as appropriate thereafter. Baseline surveys prior to relocation
would be desirable. Resurveys of environmenial radiation levels ©
on the Bikini Atoll and estimates of radionuclices in food should
be made periodically.
These surveys will pro-ice a continual
check of the radiation status of the people and environment and will
help form a basis for decision as to the time ot rehabitation of islands
outside of the Bikini-Eneu complex.