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ABSTRACT
The
Bikini
were removed
in
people
1946
wish
to
to
make
resettle
way
for
a
Bikini
Atoll,
from
U.
nuclear
weapons
S.
which
they
testing
program.
The
hazard of
radionuclide
crops.
The
resettlement
in the soil
waters
Strontium-90
the lagoon
a
almost entirely
which may contaminate
of
plays
stems
minor
and
role,
but
the
ground water and
surrounding
some
from cesium-137, a
ocean
details
are
are
food
"clean".
stil?
under
investigation.
a
Contamination aside, only two of the atoll's 23 islands are physically
and historically suitable for permanent settlement,
Bikini
(2.4 km),
the
traditional site, and Eneu (1.2 km<) which has been an ancillary one.
On
the
basis
islands
may
be
of
the
visited
Federal
now.
radiation
Eneu
may
be
protection
resettled,
but
depending
on
have to
during the initial years of resettlement.
Bikini may be resettled with the
period
of
80
foods
years,
are to
by
be
which
grown
time
imported,
all
population size some food at least would
proviso that no
be
standards,
especially
nor ground water consumed
spontaneous
decay
will have
for a
reduced
cesium-137 to permissible levels.
The Bikini-Kili Council
that
the
foregoing
has informed the Committee (August 14, 1984)
alternatives
are
unacceptable
because
Bikini
Island
would not be decontaminated.
The Committee has considered courses of action that attack the problem
directly by removing the top 30 cm of Bikini's soil.
The spp il
would be
disposed of either by the creation of a narrow, peripheral
land strip on
the
crater -in
seaward
lagoon.
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side
The
of the
island,
execution
of
or
such
by
dumping
plans
it
would
into
take
a
2-4
years
the
and