&~ In general, the following “rules" apply if the Federal radiation standards are to be met: (a) Unrestricted use of permissible. (b) Bikini only may Eneu and several other islands is now imported and Any island may be visited. be resettled cistern (not only ground) unrestricted use of Bikini if all water food is is drunk. To permit now would require a major program to render the contaminated soil innocuous. (c) In 80 years, should Bikini become agricultural safe, owing to produce the and ground spontaneous water decay of for the removal of cesium-137. The the top 30 direct cm of approach to decontamination calls Bikini soil (where concentrated) to expose a “safe" cesium-137 and layer for planting. strontium-90 are The resulting spoil (excavated soil) might be used to extend the island's seaward perimeter by 35-40 meters, or it might be dumped into the Bravo crater of the lagoon, caused by the 1954 test. The ° 1984) that causeway Bikinians, they request between ‘Eneu however, the and notified spoil Bikini be the used to Committee (September construct an 21, 8 km-long islands. The addition of this project 30 cm of soil would double the total cost. The raises removal questions of the regarding top the productivity of from the a coralloid remaining island soil. To settle this and other questions (including the limitations of water-supply and uptake the blockade of cesium-137 by high-potassium have requested support for pilot trials at the atoll. fertilizer), , On the other hand, there is the “wait-it-out" approach. to say, resettlement IGO0014 would be effected’ on 1S Bikini we and/or Eneu, That is but the’