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DOSIMETRIC RESULTS FOR THE BIKINI POPULATION
N. A. Greenhouse, R. P. Miltenberger, E. T. Lessard
Safety and Environmental Protection Division
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, New York
During the mid 1940's
high yield weapons
through 1958,
the United States conducted
tests at Bikini and Enewetak Atolls.
were contaminated with fallout from the
gram,
11973
tests.
concentrating on the main residence
Islands at Bikini Atoll, began in 1969.
Territory residents
These areas
A restoration pro-
islands of Bikini and Eneu
Approximately thirty Trust
including some former Bikini Atoll
inhabitants
participated in the initial cleanup and redevelopment of the Atoll.
During subsequent years,
the Bikini population increased
individuals at the time of
Between
their departure in August
1969 and 1974,
food crops were planted.
crops consisted mainly of coconut,
bananas and other
the majority of the food consumed on
imported by Trust Territory supply vessels.
local vegetation developed,
foods so that by
eg
As the
the diet became less restricted to
1978,
ties of locally grown items.
a
papaya,
During the maturation interval for most of
the tree crops (5-7 years),
imported
These
pandanus and breadfruit trees but
included a garden development where squash,
Bikini Island was
1978.
scrub vegetation on Bikini and Eneu Is-
lands was cleared and indigenous
crops were grown (RO 77).
to some 140
the diet contained substantial quanti-