1. PROBLEM AND SOLUTIONS The Bikini Atoll to report Bikini independently on Atoll Office Rehabilitation Committee was authorized by Congress (1N)*. of the feasibility and cost of rehabilitating The Committee was initiated two years ago through the Territorial and International Affairs, Department of the Interior, working with the Bikini people. Planning for rehabilitation involves two separate tasks. The first one deals with how the contamination of the Atoll by radioactive. fallout can the be reduced protection otherwise standards, biological civilian or and while at environmental needs of controlled the to same integrity. resettlement meet per se time |The -- the opportunity to participate in respecting second task revegetation water supply, housing, community buildings, etc. given Federal radiation the deals and atoll's with the agriculture, The Bikinians should be such planning and in the actual Committee defines and evaluates work that follows. In this report approaches and approaches are (No. 1), techniques based on the for (1) contamination. control. the spontaneous The decay of two the major radioactivity or (2) the removal of contaminated soil. 1.1 Background In Bikini 1946 Atoll weapons. the U. S. Government so that the atoll could removed be used the 167 inhabitants of for the testing of nuclear That program ended in 1958 after 23 tests which had rendered the atoll unsafe for human habitation (2). The (Figure 1), Bikini then people briefly on were settled Kwajalein, and first finally on in Rongerik Atoll September 1948 on Kili Island, some 425 miles south of Bikini Atoll (3). *References SOo0oIG with an N (e.g., 1N) contain i a note as well as a citation.