The mean
specific-activity of Bikini
spoil
totals
less than 1074 Ci/ton for all radionuclides and thus falls below the former |
so-called de minimis level of 1073 Ci per metric ton, a non-official level
now,
but
However,
one
at
that
might
present,
well
there
is
be
considered
no legal
acceptable
standard and
scientifically.
the matter
is
under
international study (29N).
(b)
Disposal
on
an
unoccupied
island
limits for food production would localize the spoil.
declared
off-
We see no reason to
incur the additional cost of unloading and other steps.
(c)
The
Bikinians
have
suggested
used to build a causeway, 8 km long, connecting
that
Eneu and
the
spoil
Bikini
be
Islands.
Such a structure would facilitate transportation between the two islands.
The
specific-activity
causeway would
not
of
be
prototype diagrammed
the
used
in
spoil
for
would
food
Figure 5
not
be
production.
(inc'uding items
important
because
The
cost
1,
total
2,
and
7,
the
of the
Table
7),
points
of
would be some $80 million.
From
view,
the
desirability
Appendices A, E).
to
wind,
wave
culverts
to
causeway
would
of
the
such
engineering
a
structure
and
is
ecological
open
to
(30N,
It would be built on a narrow reef, especially sensitive
and
allow
tidal
the
action.
free
threaten
Even
though
flow of water
fishing
on
the
supplied
between
with
reef
neighboring
integrity of the shore line, and the lagoon's circulation.
of the causeway would be expensive,
over a
question
period of 20 years.
and
reef
a
series
of
lagoon,
the
flats,
the
The maintenance
running into some millions of dollars
Especially important would be the requirement
to provide continued month by month care.
(d)
be used as
backfill
Instead of dumping the spoil off-island, it could
to extend slightly the land mass of Bikini
the exceptionally broad
6).
The
9000033
total
cost
is
reef flat that
estimated
at
35
bounds
about
its
Island on
oceanward side
$42 million
(Table
(Figure
9).
The